Want to Win a Canon 5D Mark II Camera?

Well then you are in luck! Because we are giving one away, courtesy of SmugMug, next Wednesday night live on Photo Talk Plus.

Want to learn how you can win it? Then tune in and join us tonight at 8PM PST LIVE on the Vidcast Network for an epic interview with the one and only Robert Scoble.

Robert and I go way back from the days of our photo walking videos and tonight’s hangout should be a great one. Tonight we’ll be talking about SmugMug’s new awesomest iPhone camera app Camera Awesome, the brand new Lytro lightfield camera announced today, an update on Sunday’s huge Trey Ratcliff / Tom Anderson hosted photowalk down in Los Angeles, all the latest from the rumor mill on the rumored to be imminently released (this Friday) new Canon 5D, Mark III, and much, much more.

Joining me tonight as always will be my lovely cohost Lotus Carroll, along with panelists Don MacAskill from SmugMug, Natalie Villalobos from Google, The Vidcast Network’s Keith Barrett, Camera Labs’ own Gordon Laing and LIFE Through the Lens Host Karen Hutton.

Thanks as always to our great sponsors over at Drobo and SmugMug!

BAMMMMM!!!!!! Photo Talk Plus, Episode 12

In this episode cohost +Lotus Carroll and myself interview the amazing G+ photographer +Teresa Stover

Teresa talks about shooting in West Virginia and shows us some of her beautiful self portrait work as well stunning landscapes and poignant underground photos of West Virginia coal miners. She talks about her history as a photographer, and both her in camera and processing techniques.

+Keith Barrett +Chris Chabot (from Google), +Niki Aguirre and +Ricardo Williams (BAMMMM!!) join as guest panelists for this great episode.

Other topics include, an update to Google+’s photo lightbox, the new +Ron Clifford +Jan Kabili Photoshop hangout show (every other Tuesday at 6pm PST), an interesting advert by Canon courtesy of your main man +Scott Jarvie an update on a massive photowalk taking place this Sunday in Los Angeles with +Trey Ratcliff and +Tom Anderson the new +Lytro camera, +Vivienne Gucwa’s new +SmugMug gallery page of prints for sale and much, much more.

As always thanks to our sponsors +SmugMug and +Drobo Be sure to check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com

Also don’t miss this next week’s show on February 29th when we interview +Robert Scoble.

Photo Talk Plus EP 12 Audio Podcast

Interview Guest: Teresa Stover
Panelists: Chris Chabot, Nikki Aguirre, Ricardo Williams
Recorded by: Keith Barrett
Sponsors: Smugmug, Drobo

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Join Us Tonight 8PM PST For EP12 With Teresa Stover!

Image ©Teresa Stover, All Rights Reserved

Please join cohost Thomas Hawk and myself tonight at 8PM at Vidcast Network with our wonderful panelists Niki Aguirre,Chris Chabot, Ricardo Williams, and Keith Barrett as we discuss G+ photography top stories of the past week and interview our special guest, Teresa Stover!

Teresa is a skilled and highly artistic photographer who I was very pleased to come into contact with on Google+ this past year. Her self portraits are deep and emotional, often taking my breath away. Tonight we’ll talk to her and find out more about her, her process, and what drives her passion to create and share her work. Please join us at 8PM PST tonight and be ready to chat in the chatroom at Vidcast Network and tell us what you’d like to know about Teresa!

Thanks, as always, to our fabulous sponsors, +SmugMug and +Drobo who offer our show support and creative and practical solutions for photographers. Check them out at their websites http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com

See you later tonight! :D

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 11, With Special Guest Ivan Makarov!

What a great episode of Photo Talk Plus. In this episode cohost Lotus Carroll and myself interview photographer and curator of the new Plus One Collection Book, Ivan Makarov.

Ivan gives all of the background on how this great book came into being and also shares with us some of his own work from here in the United States and also his home country of the Soviet Union.

Keith Barrett, Ricardo Lagos, Nick Gatens and Kerry Murphy join as guest panelists.

In addition to Ivan’s work and the Plus One Collection book, show topics include, Exposed, The G+ Photography Journal, Tom Anderson’s HDR work in Hawaii, the hot new photo bookmarking site Pinterest, and Google’s advertisement at the Grammy’s about using Google as a backup for your cellphone photos.

As always thanks to our sponsors SmugMug and Drobo. Be sure to check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com

Also be sure and join us tomorrow night here again at 8PM PST Live when we interview Teresa Stover in Photo Talk Plus Episode 12!!!

Photo Talk Plus EP 11 Audio Podcast

Interview Guest: Ivan Makarov
Panelists: Ricardo Lagos, Kerry Murphy, Nick Gatens
Recorded by: Keith Barrett
Sponsors: Smugmug, Drobo

Topics: +One Collection Limited Edition Exposed Google+ Photography Journal, Tom Anderson Photowalk, Pinterest, Google+ Instant Photo Upload Advert
Interview: Ivan Makarov

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Join Us Tonight LIVE 8PM PST for Photo Talk Plus Episode 11, With Special Guest Ivan Makarov

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 11, With Special Guest Ivan Makarov

*TONIGHT!!!! 8PM PST — http://vidcastnetwork.com*

I took this photo at a wedding that I shot a while back with my good Pal Ivan Makarov. Ivan is our special guest tonight on Photo Talk Plus. In addition to talking about the latest Plus One Collection book that he’s spearheaded, he’s also going to be sharing a lot about his own work and techniques on the show.

Join my cohost Lotus Carroll along with this week’s panelists Google’s Ricardo Lagos, Kerry Murphy, Nick Gatens, and Keith Barrett, as we talk with Ivan about the upcoming book and his own work as well as discuss some of the biggest Google+ Photography stories of the past week.

This week’s show is sponsored by our wonderful sponsors SmugMug and Drobo. Be sure to check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com!

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 10, With Special Guest Jaime Ibarra

What an amazing episode! For Episode 10 of Photo Talk Plus we interview fine art photographer Jaime Ibarra. Jaime’s unique in camera work and especially his post production work take color to great photographic heights. By the way, check out Jaime’s awesome SmugMug site where you can buy prints here.

Joining Lotus Carroll and myself to interview Jaime are panelists Joe Azure, Sly Vegas, Charli Blake, Jackie Freeman, Keith Barrett, Petra Cross (from Google), and Cliff Baise.

Trey Ratcliff also makes a surprise visit in the second half of the broadcast.

In this episode we talk about the New Nikon D800 and the new Canon 24-70 L Series lens, the winner of Chrysta Rae’s Scavenger hunt Kimberly Pemberton, an update on Carlos Miller’s arrest (including the video he was able to recover that the Miami PD allegedly deleted), and we talk about sensor cleaning techniques.

Thank you as always to our show sponsors SmugMug and Drobo! Be sure to check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com.

Photo Talk Plus EP 10 Audio Podcast

Interview Guest: Jaime Ibarra
Panelists: Sly Vegas, Charli Blake, Jackie Freeman, Petra Cross, Joe Azure, Cliff Baise
Recorded by: Keith Barrett
Sponsors: Smugmug, Drobo

Topics: +One Collection Limited Edition Launch, New Nikon Camera and Canon Lens, Carlos Miller Recovers Deleted Video, Sensor Cleaning
Interview: Jaime Ibarra

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Photo Talk Plus, Episode 9, With Special Guest Carlos Miller

Lotus Carroll and I had a fantastic time interviewing Carlos Miller of the famed Photography is Not a Crime blog for Episode 9 of Photo Talk Plus. Interestingly enough Carlos had just been arrested 24 hours earlier for photographing an Occupy Miami protest. This was Carlos’ third arrest for his photography (he beat the rap on the first two). Carlos has championed photographers rights since starting his blog which covers all sorts of photographer rights issues online.

In our interview with Carlos, he talks about the arrest and the fact that the police deleted his video footage of his arrest after arresting him. Unfortunately for the Miami PD, Carlos was able to retrieve the video footage that was deleted. (see below). In the recovered footage it clearly shows that there were other individuals filming the police activity and what appears to be Carlos’ being singled out for an arrest simply for participating in his Constitutionally protected 1st Amendment right to videotape the police.

In addition to our interview with Carlos we talked about some of the top weekly photography related stories from Google+ include Joe Azure’s spectacular 15 minute photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge, Google+’s unofficial 100 million user number projected by Paul Allen, Billy Wilson’s most interactive people on Google+ Circle. and an update on Ivan Makarov’s Plus One Collection book.

This episode’s panelists included Denise Ho from Google Photos, Eric James Leflar, Amy Heiden, Keith Barrett, and Peter Tsai.

Thanks as always to our sponsors SmugMug and Drobo. Be sure to check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com!

Video of Carlos Miller’s arrest while covering an Occupy Miami protest