I had the great pleasure of teaming up with Kevin Kubota, fearless leader of the globally beloved Kubota Image Tools to create the first of the Kubota Artist Series' post-processing walkthroughs, The Tamara Lackey Style Book. More details about this book coming very soon, but for now ... we're kicking off its launch by offering a free webinar this Tuesday, August 31st at 10am PST / 1pm EST, showcasing some post-processing yumminess. Sounds like a good number of photographers have already signed up via twitter and & facebook. If you want to join us, you can register here!

I am looking forward to speaking at PDN's PhotoPlus 2010, an International Conference & Expo at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, this October 28-30th! A big thank you to AsukaBook and Simply Canvas & Color Lab for sponsoring my talk on Friday, October 29th, running from 1:15pm - 3:15pm. If you're planning to head up to NYC for this major event, I hope you can make it to my seminar.... or stop by and say hi on the trade show floor - I'll also be giving a presentation or two at the Kubota Image Tools booth on Thursday!

There are some images, exchanges, and connections that stay with you long after the session is over. I don't think I'm alone in this, but I often see photographs I've taken just running through my mind, like an ongoing slideshow set to various themes. Sometimes an image will persist so strongly, I have to go back to the session and look at it again. I think that one of the most powerful aspects of photography is the ability to seek out, uncover and then capture a specific feeling, expression, emotion. It's not uncommon to see every emotion in the world run across the face of a child throughout the course of a day. And it's not like these feelings go away - we still experience them as adults. We've just trained ourselves to be less straightforward. Here's an image I've been thinking about lately ...