Exploring California

I've done a lot since my last update:

• Presented seminars in Chicago, Nashville and San Francisco
• Created a portfolio of 12 finished images from my Route 66 series that are ready to show galleries
• Visited by buddy Robb Kerr in Nashville who's been battling cancer for many years (he used to speak at events like PhotoshopWorld)
• Hung out with Bill Atkinson (the guy who created MacPaint and invented things such as the pull down menu and "marching ants")
• Explored the California coast near Monterey with my friend Dianne from Maui
• Shot some models in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
• Lost my iPhone (it's been found and is being fedexed to me for Monday delivery)

I'm currently parked in Berkeley, CA where I'll be visiting with my publisher and a few business and personal friends.

I'll be starting a Canadian tour at the end of this week and will be visiting Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.

The photograph above was taken in a recording studio in Nashville. It's a wall that's covered with thousands of square-ended sticks that are all at different lengths. I believe it's designed so that the reflection of sound off the walls is uneven. I did some light painting of a band in this room and listened to some recorded music which sounded amazing... but they said they couldn't recreate walls like this in my bus... it's just too small :-(

Comments

[Larry]

It's good to know that Robb Kerr is still battling on. I was at the first NAPP seminar in London. There was a large attendance and Robb led what appeared to be a hastily arranged session in a little side room for those of us that couldn't get into the 'main arena'.

Although, at first, this seemed to be drawing the short straw, by the end of the day I felt that I'd been fortunate to have experienced Robb's presentation for the most part of the day - I won't mention the other guy's name, Robb was 'the man' in my view. All the best to you, Robb.