Although it’s not necessarily my favorite genre of music, I thought the concert was quite good. This in particular because with free tickets and free parking, the only money spent was for two bottled waters.  ;)   The seats could have been a little more comfortable, but the weather was very nice, if not just a tick on the humid side. Considering up until a few hours before the concert was to begin they were calling for severe thunderstorms, no complaints in that regard. Something you don’t always see or expect at a concert, the show started almost exactly at 8:30PM as scheduled.

Click Here to view a poor quality video I took.

Here are a few photos I took with my phone:

Click each picture below to get the full size pano.

I’ll try and post some ‘real’ content in the near future. Perhaps a short review of the Sheryl Crow concert we’re going to at Musikfest this Friday evening.

Stay tuned…

An image taken by photographer Scott Bourne of Dan Wheldon, moments before he was killed on the race track.

Yesterday was a tragic day where Dan Wheldon lost his life in a horrific wreck at Las Vegas Motor Speedway during an Indy Car race. Alot of things could be said about this, but I think Scott Bourne has summarized it better than my own words could.

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Scott Kelby Announces the Fourth Annual Worldwide Photo Walk
The Largest Global Social Event for Photographers

TAMPA, FL – August 24, 2011 – On Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2, the whole world will be walking again with Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and #1 bestselling computer and technology book author, in his Fourth Annual Worldwide Photo Walk™ — the world’s largest global social photography event in the history of photography.

This year, the Photo Walk will take place over two days in October giving more photographers from around the world a chance to participate.  In 2010, more than 30,000 photographers walked in over 1,000 locations taking 6 million images in just one day. We anticipate that this year’s Photo Walk will be one of our biggest events.

Local photographer Scott B. Husted is helping Bethlehem, PA take part in this worldwide event by organizing a Photo Walk at Monocacy Creek Park on October 1, 2011 at 11AM. For more information, visit the Monocacy Creek Park Photowalk page, where you can also sign up to participate in the Photo Walk.

The Photo Walk is free and open to anyone who owns a camera. More Photo Walk details are available at: http://worldwidephotowalk.com/ or visit the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk Facebook page.

The 2011 Photo Walk is co-sponsored by Adobe. Additional sponsors include Wescott, KelbyTraining.com, NAPP, Peachpit, Mpix, Wacom, Manfrotto, onOne Software, Tamron, Tiffen and B&H.

About NAPP
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is a dynamic trade association and the world’s leading resource for Adobe® Photoshop® and Photoshop® Lightroom® training, news, and education. An award-winning team of Photoshop and photography experts, authors, consultants, and trainers lead the association – keeping its members on the cutting edge of Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography techniques and technology. With 72,000 members in 106 countries, NAPP is the largest digital imaging and graphics association worldwide. Visit http://www.photoshopuser.com for more information.

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Media Contact:

Mary Laurinaitis

NAPP/Media Manager

813-433-5005, ext. 162

MaryL@KelbyMediaGroup.com

Google+

I just wanted to give a brief ‘review’ of my experience with the new Google+ service that was launched within the last 48 hours. I apologize to those of you who haven’t been able to gain access yet, but I assure you things will improve very quickly as there are numerous ways people are discovering to invite people into the service.

The whole purpose behind Google+ is to improve the experience of ‘sharing’ information. Or at least, to improve it in the ways in which Google believes it is now dysfunctional. To me, it seems like a much more organized and ‘clean’ Facebook – without the mass of people.

For my taste, I like it. Although I am an admitted Google “Fan Boy”, I really had low expectations of whatever ‘social’ product Google was rumored to be working on. They haven’t exactly been setting the world on fire with their recent new product and service releases, Hello Wave and Buzz!  However, I’m pleasantly surprised at how well Google is tying all your information together. Most people do not even realize all the services available to them on Google, such as Google Profiles, or don’t see the need to utilize them because they are already on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc. I’ve always liked the different options Google offered, but it was extremely difficult to navigate the landscape to discover and organize your information in one need place. iGoogle wasn’t really the platform for that and the dashboard felt entirely too utilitarian. Profiles did begin to pull stuff together in some ways, and appears to be one of the first steps which has led to the Google+ service.

Let me briefly explain a few of the key components of Google+:

• Circles – “Browse your circles to see what all the different people in your life are sharing with you.” Circles is basically ‘groups’, where you can add people into your specific circle such as friends, acquaintances, or family. There is also a ‘following’ circle which allows you to follow people who might be interesting to you, but are not part of the circles you want to share your information with. You can also create your own custom circle and call it whatever you like.  (Watch the video here)
• Hangouts – “Start a hangoutanytime, from anywhere. Up to ten people can stop in and chat.” It’s pretty self explanatory, but it’s a group chat function that allows you to chat in real time video. (Watch the video here)
• Sparks – “Use Sparks to get a constant feed of stuff you’re really into, and share it with friends.” (Watch the video here)
• Streams – Streams is very much like your News Feed in Facebook. You can have it show everything coming through from all sources, or you can filter it to just show certain circles such as just Friends, or just Family. The “Incoming” stream shows posts that were shared with you by people who aren’t in your circles.

What Google+ is really doing is bringing everything together from as many sources as possible while providing that information in the most organized and relevant to you way. It’s not an easy task to accomplish, and it’s way to early to say if Google is getting this right or not. However, for me personally, I really am enjoying the experience as I like the interface and the organization methods.

‘But wait, there’s more’. Picasa, Google’s image sharing service, is now offering more options thanks to Google+.  All users of Picasa, whether they are using Google+ or not, can upload to their accounts with less orry about going over their storage limits. To quote from a Lifehacker article:

A new photo-tagging feature lets your Google+ friends tag your public photos.While Picasa Web Albums offers 1GB of free storage for photos and videos, files under certain size limits won’t count towards this free storage limit. If you’re a Google+ user, photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t eat up your storage space. For non-Google+ users, the photo size limit is smaller: 800 x 800 pixels (videos are also under 15 minutes).

If you reach your storage limit and upload images larger than these dimensions to Picasa Web Albums, however, Google will automatically resize them for you so they won’t count towards your free storage limit—so it’s like getting unlimited storage after all.

Read the entire article at Lifehacker.com.