Outdoor Photographer Magazine Article, November 2008

I am excited to announce that November 2008 issue of Outdoor Photographer Magazine is focusing on my work in their Outdoor Photographer and the Environment Feature. The theme of the article will be South Carolina's mountain/temperate rain forest and the conservation successes and challenges that we are facing at the moment. This is a huge honor for me but, more importantly, it will bring our efforts for protecting this critical habitat to a much bigger stage. The article was written by O.P. associate editor Kim Castleberry and she did a really fine job highlighting the issue. I hope that anyone who reads this post will have a chance to check it out!

Clay

Swiss Picture Bank

I saw this in the May 2008 edition of Outdoor Photographer Magazine and thought that it was pretty interesting. Basically, the Swiss Picture Bank is a service that allows you to upload images through a web-portal for just cents per image –three cents per compressed images and 15 cents for uncompressed. The Bank will then "make multiple copies of every picture, encrypt them and secure them on redundant servers housed in data centers located throughout Switzerland." If you need to retrieve a lost image you can download it at any time. This is a certainly an innovative way to archive your images and you can tell you friends that you have a "Swiss Bank Account." The only downside to this concept is that I didn't think of it first.