Comments on: here comes 2009, the good and bad news

By: Jimmy Underwood

Jimmy Underwood — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:23:05 +0000

Jim,

I am staying optimistic that you will be able to keep the site going. I can’t express to you what a tremendous help you have been to me. Your tips have helped me improve as a photographer as I strive to enter the professional arena. Thanks so much for fantastic information.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:10:28 +0000

Oh no! I’ve only just stumbled across this site!

It`s a shame the video tutorials couldn’t be opened up to allow others to share their own tips and tricks.

Good luck with the future and thanks for the tips.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:40:23 +0000

Jim,
Thanks so much! I’m a much better photographer after learning from you. Your approach was always as that of a friend explaining things to you. You never seemed to “talk down”, but always made it fun and interesting.
Maybe another good of the post taking on its new life is that those of us who frequent it will actually have to be more creative on our own. We won’t just learn from you, but take on more experimentation based on what you’ve taught us. I’m sure that we’ve been doing that already to an extent, but now it’s “just keep swimmin’” as they say in Finding Nemo.
You mentioned that you need to shoot more. I find that I get so bogged down in learning this and that, that I don’t shoot nearly enough. Time to change that!
But thanks again. I felt like I knew you. I wish you gargantuan success at Daylite, and every other avenue of your life.
Jerry

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:14:59 +0000

Thanks again, everyone, it means a lot to hear from you. I’m having trouble keeping up with comments these days but want to assure all that the videos will remain available for as long as I can see into the future. Definitely send your friends this way if the videos can be a help, they should be here for some time.

Chad, I like your idea and did consider something similar. I totally understand where you’re coming from but it’s more than I can probably put together right now. As Noah mentioned, it really means a lot to me that the site remain up to the level I’ve always put into it. But I will explore it a bit, I’ll contact my friend that teaches journalism at the University of Cincinnati and mention the internship idea (I’ve had an intern from that school before). It’s always worth asking!

Hey Rick (OVCC), it’s great to hear from you! Sorry I haven’t been keeping in touch. Heck, yeah, I want to do something with the group. I better go check the OVCC calendar…

By: Chad Pennington

Chad Pennington — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:49:28 +0000

Jim is there any way you can get guest photographers to come in do do guest spots on the site and just hire an intern to just do the inputting of the videos? Just wanted to give you a few more options (that you probably know already) I didn’t want to seem insensitive to your needs.

Either way I wish you much success. No matter what stay faithful to the cause of photography.

P.S. Will we still be able to go to the site to view videos?

By: Link Roundup 01-03-2009

Link Roundup 01-03-2009 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:55:49 +0000

[...] here comes 2009, the good and bad news Pro Photo Life Our friend, Jim Talkington, shares some good news and some bad news for the new year. Good news is that he’ll be focusing more attention on his personal photography and sharing via a photoblog. Bad news is that he won’t have much time for Pro Photo Life. We’ll miss the frequent updates, Jim. [...]

By: Rick Hartigan, OVCC

Rick Hartigan, OVCC — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:37:54 +0000

Jim,
Heard through the grapevie of the move. Congrats and best wishes going forward. Sounds like you are busy as a one armed paper hanger and that’s good. I’ve been the same so haven’t had much time to check in but wanted to stop by and wish you the best. I still want you for a meetup sometime. Hopefully, we can work that out. Until then, best of the New Year.
Rick at OVCC

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:40:50 +0000

Thanks for providing the simple videos for us novices to learn from. I beg you not to get rid of the videos. Just keep this site as a back page somewhere. I would love to come and spend some time watching and learning the simple photo technics you show in the videos. Thank You and have a great New Year.

By: Dave Echols

Dave Echols — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:52:55 +0000

Jim,
I wanted to just follow up on a post above from another person. Would you be willing to put your videos on the site in downloadable form for those of us that would like to keep them and use them as refreshers? I would just hate for this site to have to go away and loose all that great information.

On a second note. I like the idea of ‘a photo a day’ and I am hoping I can do that too, the only difference is, I am actually going to take a photo everyday of something I see as “just different”. I will post them under my flickr account. Search for Dispatchdave.

Again, I wish you well.

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:28:51 +0000

Thanks, all, your support has been amazing. It’s only been a few days but hopefully the newbies will keep stumbling on prophotolife from search results and it will keep giving. And I hope you’ll keep it bookmarked, just in case there’s a reference you can use.

I can honestly say that every suggestion mentioned above has been considered…and I’d like to do them all. Better to “under promise and overdeliver”, though, so right now I’ll be trying to accomplish photo a day 2009 blog as my focus.

I’ll post an update here on prophotolife this weekend, still some more thank you’s to say…