For the month of July, 2009, I’m offering 8×12 prints of this dunes image at $125 (plus tax/ship as necessary). To order, email me at joe (at) rockslidephoto (dot) com. There’s also one 16×11 print (available as matted or framed) available at a 20% discount to the usual prices.

Shipped off a 16×11 print of Puffins IV today, it’ll be soon at a national exhibition of nature photography my little effort was juried into at the San Diego Museum of Natural History. Details on the exhibitions page if your’e in the San Diego, CA area.

For the month of June, 2009, and in honor of Friday’s reception for my new body of work “Desert Rhythms”, I’m offering 8×12 prints of this dunes abstract at $125 (plus tax/ship as necessary). To order, email me at joe (at) rockslidephoto (dot) com.

The unusual color here (and the subtleties of the hues here are poorly reproduced on my laptop, you really must see these in person) are pre-dawn light underneath, tinged by the bright red clouds presaging the coming sunrise.

For the month of May, 2009, I’m offering 8×12 prints of this image of a puffin from Látrabjarg at $100 (plus tax/ship as necessary), and larger sizes at 25% off the usual price. To order, email me at joe (at) rockslidephoto (dot) com.

A few pics documenting the performance of Signatures of the Sun at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

(I’m not shown, but the composer Sam Hamm and the pianist Jen Bratz are).

Jennifer Bratz, piano, and Sam Hamm, composer, Assistant Professors of Music at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT, will be presenting the premiere of Dr. Hamm’s composition for piano “Signatures of the Sun” in a joint lecture-recital at the University of Colorado College of Music in Boulder at 2:00p on Thursday, April 23.

The work is a collaboration among Bratz, Hamm, and photographer Joe Decker of San Jose, CA (http://www.rockslidephoto.com). Each of the four movements of the composition is inspired by an image from Mr. Decker’s “Signatures of the Sun” series, and the performance includes projections of the images:

1. Lightfall
2. Still
3. Glowing Runes
4. Waves

Bratz, Decker, and Hamm will present a lecture-recital on the work at 7:00p on Wednesday, April 29, in the Taylor Auditorium of Losekamp Hall on the Rocky Mountain College campus. The event is free and open to the public.

A website for the work has been established at http://www.signaturesofthesun.com and will be accumulating content over the next few weeks.

I’m now also putting my workshops up on TeachStreet. If you’ve taken one of my workshops before and have something nice to say, want to write a review, etc., recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

If so, drop me an email, I’d like to chat about some differences I’ve noticed relative to stability and performance, to see if your observations match my own.

For the month of April, I’m offering this new image from Yosemite National Park at $100 for an 8×10 print, unmatted/unframed. Shipping/tax not included. To order, drop me an email at joe (at) rockslidephoto (dot) com.

I’ve added a number of new events to the exhibitions and events page. After the mystery events in April (Boulder, CO and Billings, MT), I’ll be a featured artist (one of two) at KALIED gallery in San Jose, CA for the June “First Friday” reception at that gallery. Later in June I’ll have a piece (Puffin IV, a puffin image from Iceland) included in a national show of nature photography at the Ordover Gallery at the San Diego Natural History Museum, which is located in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.

It’s good to be busy!

I’ve accepted an offer to join a new group photography blog project called Photocrati, and I’m excited about it, I think has the potential to create useful conversation between serious photographers of different stripes and hopefully share some of the results of that conversation with the world. My most recent article there is a review of Galen Rowell’s classic book Mountain Light, but I’d also urge you to go back and take a look at this post, where I put out a request for samples of work you’d like to see discussed (image included, with credit, of course) from a POV of photographic composition.

(I’ll still blog here, of course, focusing here on my own artworks, shows, and less formal musings, have no fear!)

Adobe has put Lightroom 2.3 into full release. I’ve been working with Lightroom 2.3 RC (a release candidate very close to what’s now available above), and it’s been an enormous step up in stability from Lightroom 2.2 for my work.