I’m now an instructor for San Francisco with the Panasonic Digital Photo Academy, an impressive, nation-wide photography school run by some talented people! I’ll be teaching a great advanced photography workshop at Fisherman’s Wharf on February 13 and basic and intermediate classes in March. There’s more information (including registration instructions) on the DPA website.

I think this is the year that still photography will really start to die on a professional level. Here’s the thing–it’s gotten too easy to get a decent shot (everyone has a camera), edit it (have you tried Photoshop Elements’ Photomerge tools?!), and give it away for free/next to nothing to see it published (do you know someone into microstock?). Images have very little value to people anymore, and even formerly-exotic images of penguins and hummingbirds are becoming more commonplace. Fortunately for photographers, I also think this is the year that magazines as we know them will start to die.

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This past weekend, I was playing with an infrared flash trigger and some water droplets. I have to say it was pretty neat but very hard to control the splash. More after the jump:

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Recently, my friend Erik helped update my site, making it easier for me to update the content here. For one, galleries containing a selection of images from my Photoshelter Archive are now integrated into the site. That will make it easier for me to share new images with everyone. The second big change is this blog, which will make it easier to get the word out on different projects, especially now that O’Reilly has moved away from the Inside Aperture blog. Look for a trip report from the Falkland Islands in the near future.

Happy shooting!