By now you should know that I am going to Photoshop World in Orlando, March 24-26. One of the events that you get to take part of is the Guru Awards, a contest open only to the attendees of the conference. You get to enter three entries into any of the seven categories, Artistic, Photography, Photo Restoration, Commercial, Photo Montage, Photo Retouching and Illustration.

I have just made sent in my entry for the awards and if you are attending Photoshop World, you should think about doing the same thing, because the deadline is fast approaching, March 5th.

View from outside my house

Over the past weekend we have gotten a very large amount of snow here (about half a meter), something that is very unusual in a normal winter, down here in Gothenburg, Sweden. The photo above was taken just earlier today (with my iPhone) outside of my house where places to move the snow are becoming very rare.

Still, now that it isn’t snowing like crazy, it looks very beautiful outside! Have you gotten any snow where you are, and if so, where in the world are you?

Don’t forget to tune in on Thursday. I had originally, when I made the recording, planned this to go out on Wednesday, but decided to let it go now, therefore I am saying “today or tomorrow” as the event date in the video.

Once before I have unofficially created a countdown widget for OS X for Photoshop World. Now that I will be going to Photoshop World Orlando (March 24-46), I thought this would be the time to make a new widget available to the world.

As said, the widget is for OS X and works from 10.4.3 and up. Just download, unzip and double-click the widget file to install.

Download Widget

SexyBookmarks

SexyBookmarks is a recent plugin I found that gives a nice style to sharing links (publishing articles on Digg, Facebook, Twitter and more). I installed it the other day on this site and a couple more of mine, it just looks great, don’t you agree?

Have you used SexyBookmarks or do you have another favorite? Let me know in the comments!

Learning Digital Photography

A couple of days ago, I sat down with Jason Anderson of Canonblogger to guest on his podcast, Learning Digital Photography. The show has now been posted and you can listen to it through iTunes or on Jason’s site.

During the show, we cover news from CES as well as how to publicize your work online and get it noticed. We also answer some listener questions.

Hopefully, I am going to be able to be on LDP as a guest quite often as we go forward.

L’eau gelée

We are having some very cold weeks and for once, this has paid off in photo ops. Went to one of my favorite spots near here and it treated me rather well. This photo, whose title can mean frozen water (or frost water), I think portrays the cool weather we have been having.

Shutter Speed: 25s
Aperture: ƒ/13
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Focal Length: 10mm (15mm in 35mm equiv)
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Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 10-20 ƒ/4.0-5.6

I have felt for quite some time that the time had come to upgrade my older D50 to a new body and had planned this for the coming year. I had to jump at the sale prices offered this week (by the store where I happen to work), about $400 off the regular price!

So home with me today came my latest gear addition, my brand new D90. More photos will come with that tomorrow as I get out shooting some. I might get around to some closeups tonight of the tree if I am lucky. Otherwise, tomorrow it is!