Showing posts with label August 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label August 2009. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2009

BACKCOUNTRY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 30, 2009

Hello one and all,

You are receiving this email because you have bought something from me, thought of buying something from me, stopped by my booth at a show and chatted, or are friends and family. Please let me know if you wish to be removed from this list. Thanks.

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I hope this email finds you all well. A number of things going on in the Backcountry offices as of late…

I have been working at Aerolite Meteorites (http://www.aerolite.org/) quite a bit and having a grand time. Geoff, an accomplished photographer whom I am learning much from, has entrusted me with doing some of the product photography of the meteorites for his website. Check out the ‘new’ sales item page, the majority of the photos were done by me. http://www.aerolite.org/new.htm

Slightly related to that topic…
One of my photos was featured on the rocks from space daily photo. You can see it here at http://www.rocksfromspace.org/August_4_2009.html

And…one was used in the Tucson Citizen Newspaper online Logical Lizard blog entry http://tucsoncitizen.com/lizard/2009/07/29/when-funny-things-fall-from-the-sky/

And… two were used in another Tucson Citizen Newspaper online Logical Lizard blog entry:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/lizard/2009/08/06/turtle-river-meteorite-ancient-iron-from-the-heart-of-an-asteroid/

The past few weeks I have been participating in a weekly farmers market. If you are in Tucson, come check it out - Fridays from 8AM-1PM on the southwest corner of Broadway and Country Club. With that being said, I won’t be there for the next two weeks. Why you ask? Great question; which brings us up to our next segment of news.

Lisa and I will be traveling to Flagstaff for the Labor Day Art in the Park festival! The big bit of news for this year’s show is that I will actually have a booth of my own. (No longer Lisa’s operations manager) This year’s festival will be taking place Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (the 5th - 7th). So if you are in the area please come by. For those of you in Phoenix; it is a great weekend to get out of the heat…

Upon my return to Tucson, I will be spending the rest of the week in the field as the location photographer for Geoff Notkin while he’s filming the new Discovery Science channel show Meteorite Men (picked up for 6 more episodes, thanks for watching.).

After that I will be returning to the farmer’s market schedule with the addition of the Saturday farmer’s market at St Phillip’s Plaza at River and Campbell. Hope to see you there.

So, new desktop installment for this newsletter: I had a tough time deciding on a photo this time around; so many photos so few newsletters. However, I had such a great response to the horse and dog nose photo (thanks so much for the feedback) I thought I might continue the animal theme. Today you will be getting 2 photos since I couldn’t decide between the two. These little Gamble Quail babies were chasing after Dad and Mom who didn’t have quite as much of a problem jumping over the wall and down to the sidewalk on the other side.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.
Suzanne


Saturday, July 25, 2009

BACKCOUNTRY NEWSLETTER JULY 25, 2009

Hello one and all,

You are receiving this email because you have bought something from me, thought of buying something from me, stopped by my booth at a show and chatted, or are friends and family. Please let me know if you wish to be removed from this list. Thanks.

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Just a quick thank you for all those who stopped by the booth over the July 4th weekend at the Pine/Strawberry Art Show. It was a pleasure meeting you all. Lisa and I had a great time and did not want to head back down to the Old Pueblo to be greeted by the summer heat. We did and we were. Sigh. Congratulations go out to Paula Burch who won this shows’ raffle prize. Paula please email me with your information so I can send you the photo.

I’ve been pretty busy since the show and have spent quite a bit of time out of town: I have been chasing after the fireball seen over Tucson about a month ago, taken some training classes, done a little photography, adopted another greyhound (Dru of the last desktop photo fame), took classes to be licensed in Fight Like a Girl a women’s self defense program, created a blog, and the list goes on…

Wait, hold on, back up - that’s right - Backcountry Photography now has a blog. So far the (few) posts extend to covering shows I’ve attended, photography jaunts and the latest available photos. I have another post to make in the near future as I have been taking some great photos while out in the desert meteorite hunting (the photo ops are the only thing I am finding). So stop on by…

www.backcountryphotographyaz.blogspot.com

And to the part of the newsletter I know you are all anxious to get to…

The latest desktop photo installment. For your viewing pleasure today, we have the door from an out building at the oldest school in Arizona. I was able to spend some time there over the 4th of July weekend; it was just down the road from the Strawberry Lodge. You can check out my blog for more photos of the school itself.

Hope this finds you well.

Suzanne