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Workshops updates

June 26, 2008 – 7:19 pm

The September workshop has 3 spaces left open. I expect it to be full within a week, or sooner if any of the ‘on the radar’ folks end up registering.

I will have a waiting list for Workshop I once it fills, and *may* do another 3-day intensive in October depending on the demand. I have a couple of people who can’t make the September date so we’ll see. Unfortunately it kind of depends on the weather, which has been so hard to predict this year! I may just decide to go for it and shoot in the rain if it’s crummy out. I have actually gotten some of my best shots in horrible weather, so it might not be a dealbreaker.

I have formally decided to have the October workshop II be an intermediate/advanced workshop. It will be for 2 days, and won’t contain most of the business information covered in the 3-day workshop. On day two however we will go into more advanced business details such as selling stock and getting into commercial and editorial and discuss issues that are more relevant to established businesses. Although it won’t have the breadth and scope of the business information in the 3-day, we will also talk a bit about marketing and branding, which I feel are oh so important. The dates of Workshop II will be Saturday October 4th and Sunday October 5th.

See the dates page of the workshop website for more details on the advanced workshop: http://www.cowbellyworkshops.com/dates.html

I have also added to the FAQ page so be sure to check that out too.

That’s it for now! I have sent several handfuls of emails on workshops today, so may have more updates very soon!

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SOS!!

June 24, 2008 – 3:23 pm

“Help! Calling all national pet photography aide services! One professional pet photographer in Seattle seeking immediate assistance! Mounting emails and voicemails causing quick burial in work! Send help asap!”

Ok, in all seriousness, I had to post this to ask everyone who has called me or emailed me recently to please be patient with me until I can back to you, even if you contacted me like forever ago.

My assistant Christina is still off this month (finishes her yoga school on Friday, yay! But then she needs to move house, sigh….), and although I thought I could handle everything on my own I was SO wrong! Being sick all last week only made matters worse, so I am now VERY behind in getting back to folks. As of last count I have 53 emails to reply to and at least 8 voicemails. (sigh, buries head in sand…)

Please know that if you have emailed or called me I have received your message and will get back to you as soon as I possibly can- my goal is to be caught up within the next two days! I am going through the list in order of the date of contact, and/or if there is an immediate deadline as in for a gift.  

Also, if you are going to or already have contacted me about scheduling a shoot this summer have no fear, I still have many openings left-including weekends- I haven’t even had a chance to start booking people! BUT, having said that, don’t wait too long, now that the weather is getting nice in Seattle I am getting flooded with requests so I expect to book up quickly once I start scheduling folks. At least for weekend dates which are always popular. I expect to be in town for every weekend through the middle of September, at which point I think I’m going to need a vacation, ha. 

If you are a client who I worked with in April and have contacted me about booking your studio shoot, I have some updates on that and will get back to you this week!

If you have contacted me about workshops, as far as I have had time to look, I’m not full yet for the September workshop but may very well be with all of the folks who have contacted me up until this afternoon. I will be contacting the ‘on the radar’ folks today, as well as the new folks who contacted me. 

If you have contacted me about the October workshop, I still have at least 10 spaces left. I have yet to set the date but will this week!

Whew!

Christina is coming in for about 2 hours tonight to help out, so hopefully between she and I we can make some good progress.

Thank you for being so patient!! I promise that next time my assistant takes time off I will have backup, lol!

Hope everyone is having a great week. :-)

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amazing film by Dog Art Today

June 23, 2008 – 9:00 am

The best way to start your week has to be, without a doubt, to view this stunning little film on dogs in art through 5,000 years of history; conceived,  created, and edited by Moira McLaughlin; inspired by Philip Scott Johnson’s Women in Art film.

Dogs in Art film

Also, to view all of the art images in the film see this post on Moira’s blog, Dog Art Today. 

Happy Monday! 

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Happy take your dog to work day! :-)

June 20, 2008 – 5:23 pm

I hope that everyone who was able to bring their pooch to their offices with them today had a GREAT time and were able to convince their bosses that canines in the workplace are such a benefit that it’s the kind of thing that should happen regularly. Hint, hint. 

Next year I hope to get involved somehow and I have some really cool ideas on how to do just that. I wanted to do it this week but alas my body wasn’t too game to get on board. 

Thanks dearly to those of you who have checked in with me this week! I am feeling quite a bit better now and although still weak and zombie-like (and uncharacteristically cranky), I am starting to feel human again, and I think once I have a long shower and one more good night’s sleep I will be back to my old self. 

I am deeply grateful to both of my parents this week who set aside their lives to come and take care of me and the Fergs. I really don’t know what I would have done without them and need to come up with something really special to do for them/give them to say thank you. I am so lucky to have them both in my life. 

I have so many new posts that I want to publish that I don’t even know where to start. Included on the list are the behind-the-scenes look at the CityDog Magazine Summer cover shoot and the interview with Charlie and Seymour, the photos from South Lake Union, the second sneak-peek post of June and Shelby’s images including the link to the beautiful customizable sterling silver dog tags, a super exciting announcement about the Cowbelly 5-year Anniversary Party next month, photos of Ziggy and Tina’s photobook that came in the mail, a couple of other cool pieces of news and an update on the September workshop. 

But first I need to attempt to catch up with the mounting pile of emails and phone calls I haven’t replied to this week, finish a couple of art projects I have been working on, get some clients proofed, order some prints and finish my laundry. :-P I promise to post more fun stuff (and lots of photos) very soon!

Happy Friday all! OH, and happy first day of summer (finally)!!

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