Nikon: Free lecture @ Wash. Post offices (Dec. 11)

NPS seminar – Friday Dec 11th

Nikon Professional Services presents a special free seminar for professional photographers featuring award-winning photographer and educator Bill Frakes along with pioneering visual storyteller Laura Heald.  During this two hour seminar, they will discuss using the latest in high-definition video equipment to take storytelling to new heights.   Frakes, a staff photographer at Sports Illustrated, has garnered many awards including a staff prize for the Pulitzer Prize at the Miami Herald.  His commercial clients include Apple, Nikon, Coca-Cola, Nike and many more.  Heald is a versatile, multi-faceted story-teller who co-founded Straw hat Visuals, a media company based in Jacksonville, Florida.

This free Nikon sponsored seminar is open to the first 100 signees who register online.  This two hour seminar is scheduled for Friday, December 11, 2009 at the Washington Post in Washington, DC.

Washington Post
1150 15th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20071

Professional Photographers from the following genre of photography are invited to this event:  News, newspaper, magazine, government, freelance, multimedia and wedding.

Those attending should have an interest mixing still photography with video capture and editing.  This seminar covers techniques that Bill and Laura used to create and publish still, audio and video driven content for multimedia presentations using the latest in Nikon digital cameras.  This seminar discusses audio, lighting and techniques used to create quality story telling products.

Refreshments will be served.
Tuition & Fees:  Free

Register online at :
http://dcnikonpro091211.eventbrite.com/

If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks,
Mark A Suban
NPS Professional Marketing Representative

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Bravo, Washington Post!

In a wonderful mulitmedia educational website, the Washington Post has done an indepth coverage of Uganda’s war in the North. The “ceasefire” that they speak of is suspect considering the kidnappings and killing reports continue on the fringes but officially the line is that the peace talks continue and peace is declared. Either way, what a great coverage! It’s much more indepth than the paper version went into and I applaud them for finally covering this topic so thoroughly!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/africa/uganda/index.html?theday=3&hpid=topnews

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Andrea Bruce’s picture posts from Iraq

I don’t know if you know this but our intrepid friend Andrea Bruce from The Washington Post has a weekly photocolumn in the International section of the Post called “Unseen Iraq.”

(I know this because I am one of the few people left who still actually SUBSCRIBES DAILY to the Post…well, that and Andrea told me to look for it…either way, subscribe to the paper! You won’t be disappointed!)

Click here to see the posts and archives.

I know being away from home for months at a time in a foreign land can get lonely and depressing at times, no matter how much you love your ex pat friends. So if you get a chance to shoot her an email and say “Good job” or “Keep your spirits up,” I bet she’d appreciate it.

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