Round of Links and Thoughts

Here is a set of links and thoughts to share from my recent travels in the world of internets.

• One of my favorite places to shoot in Northern California is Point Lobos, a place where Ansel Adams loved to take his visitors for a walk when he lived in Carmel. If you don't know that area very well, here is a good guide published by SFGate to this place.
• Jim Goldstein posted a collection of links to the best images from 2008 on his web-site as part of the project I also participated in. Here is the link to Jim's post.
• I recently came across a concept I have not yet fully explored, eBooks. One of the local landscape photographer, Don Smith, whose work I greatly admire, just published his Guide to the Big Sur Coast in form of a downloadable pdf book, and he borrowed a concept from William Neill's eBooks. Well, I bought a book from William (his Landscapes of the Spirit) and it blew me away. As a result, I am now learning Adobe's InDesign software and will begin with publishing my first portfolio in a form of an eBook, which will be available for free download when it's ready. Please stay tuned.
  
• With that said, I'm off to buy a new eBook that Don just made available (I did not know it was available when I started writing this post). I'll post my review shortlty.
  
• Speaking of portfolio - wow. It's quite a labor to stop and think about which images actually represent my body of work up to this point. I'll share my thoughts on this in the coming days, but I been taking it seriously, and it has not been an easy task by any stretch of my imagination, even despite the fact that I've only been shooting seriously for a couple of years. Sometimes we shoot so much that we lose the meaning and connection between our images.