So here is a post to some new images shot recently on the Washington Coast and a slide show of landscape images from www.ricpeterson.us stock archive

A Photo Folio is the service I began about two years ago. Moved the site to their servers to take advantage of frequent updates to the site and importantly to use the new ipad compatable feature.

Check out ipad.ricpeterson.com It is different than the website, but similar, much better than html on iphone.

Soon will be adding video to the mix and updated images shortly.

A few years ago he partnered with Michael Monroe, musician, and created a performance at the Guthrie Theatre in MN.

this story, creating a mixed media display of photographs.

Great!

Large Brandenburg Wolf Exhibit in France, March 20 – 28

Fifty photographs of timber and white wolves presented in an enormous specially constructed cave transporting the public to northern Minnesota and the Canadian Arctic.  Vendee Nature Festival, France, March 20 – 28, 2010.

The photos below are of the exhibit setup, including the calibration of the large movie screen.  We will post more images as they arrive from France!

Love to hear your comments. All Good Wishes

Ric

http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=3090

[by Judy Herrmann]

At the SB2 conferences a couple of years ago, I noticed that many photographers were exhibiting the classic signs of mourning.  Back then, most were still in denial but many were grappling with a sense of helplessness, paralysis and loss as they faced what they perceived as the death of a profession they loved.

Today, it’s clear that far too many of my colleagues have graduated to the anger phase and that anger is doing as much damage to our profession as the recession, changing technologies and changing markets combined.
In Vein of Gold, her 1996 sequel to The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron wrote: “When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.” I’m willing to bet that every single one of us either is that person or knows that person.

Looking for a silver bullet?  The magic answer?  Here it is:  the one thing that’s going to help you survive as a professional visual communicator is your creativity.  I can’t tell you what your career is going to look like – that’s up to you – but I can tell you that without creative vision, creative thinking, creative problem solving, creative strategies and creative approaches to building your business in the “new economy” you’re not going to make it in this field.

If you’re one of the angry ones, all I can say is Get Over It.  Find help, find hope, find whatever shot in the arm you need because if you allow your anger at these irrevocable changes to get in the way of your creativity, you are walking roadkill. If you’re not one of the angry ones, if you’re still hopeful, still open, still looking for what’s possible, I congratulate you.  Foster your creativity – nourish it, protect it and don’t let the kill-joys near it – for it is the key to your future.

5 – 30 January, 2010
wall space
at The Angle Gallery
Tashiro Kaplan Building | 312 S. Washington
Seattle.

join us for our Artist Reception during First Thursday ArtWalk
7 January, 2010
6 to 8pm

Our 4th annual New Directions exhibition,
Down+Out
juried by Carol McCusker, curator of the Museum of Photographic Arts
is pleased to present 42 artists challenging the ideas of distance and scale.

Participating artists -

Robbie Acklen  |  John Aldredge  |  Jeff Antebi
Cordelia Bailey  |  Chris Bennett  |  Heidi Bertman
Andrew Binkley  | Charles Blackburn | J. Wesley Brown
Alejandro Cartagena | Pete Cosenza | Matthew Derezinski
Kristen Fecker Peroni   |  David George | Colin Graham
Steve Guttenberg |  Ray Hau  | Nicole Jean Hill
 Joshua Hobson  | Adam Jaocno  |  Kirby Johnson
Jeffrey Krolick |  Sarah Marie Land   |  Larry Larsen
Nathan Lunstrum |  Duc Ly  | Kora Manheimer
Patricia McInroy  | Daniel Melo |  Charles Mintz
Emily Nathan |  David Jaewon Oh  |  Wayne Palmer  |  Ric Peterson
Dawn Roe  |  Wendy Ross  |  Michael Seif
Sarah Sharp | Peter Tilgner  |  Ronit Toledano
Anna Maria Vag  |  Jacqueline Walters

What Matters Now: get the free ebook

Now, more than ever, we need to shake things up.

Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around. I hope a new ebook I’ve organized will get you started on that path. It took months, but I think you’ll find it worth the effort. (Download here).

“don’t leave it up to chance to make sales. Understand who is buying the images you’re shooting, and make sure your marketing plan includes them. This might mean building a clientele and licensing directly. It might mean moving to footage. It might mean none of the above. Like so many creative endeavors in life, the best creatives aren’t necessarily the ones who succeed. The average photographer with superior business sense will continue to dominate.”

This is quoted from Allen Murabayashi’s blog on photoshelter website. He is referencing Getty pulling out of the wholly owned content creation division of their company and the stock industry in general. This message however is universal!