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I traveled up to Maine yesterday to drop off my daughter at camp and then drove across on Route 17 to Rockport to meet with Kate Izor from the Maine Media Workshops. The workshops were in full swing and classes and enrollment were solid. Stan Grossfeld had given a presentation about his Pulitzer Prize winning work on Wednesday night. Photographers John Goodman and Zig Harvey were in the middle of a workshop as well.
It is great to see that this wonderful place that so many of us have visited is alive and well with some solid leadership and passionate people. Kate and I had a great meeting and discussed ideas for future workshops and collaborating together.

When I left I got to travel down the coast in search of a Lobstah roll.

I found Shaw’s, somewhere near Pemaquid Lighthouse. ZuZu, my faithful travel companion, kept looking for seagulls to chase, but had no luck. She’s a great a great car traveler and never once asked me to change the music!

As a kid growing up in Connecticut, I remember when Walter Cronkite came to our local junior high school in 1975 and shared with our class many of his favorite moments in his life. He recalled sitting with JFK in Hyannisport and his reporting on the Apollo mission.

This shot of these two great men is available at The Boston Globe Store – order your copy today!

We have hunted through the Boston Globe Store and come across this vintage 1946 All Star Game photo from 1946 – 65 years ago!

You can order your copy of the photo directly from the Globe Store and have it printed at DSI!

DSI had a great looking booth at the New England Camera Club Council meeting and trade show this past weekend. This was the 64th annual conference and some of the attendees we spoke with have been coming there for the past 30 years in a row!. Kathy Skarvan of Ava Art was with me on Friday to discuss her customer framing. She saw some familiar faces from past shows we have done together.
We also had some of Ted Dillard’s books on display and sold copies of RAW Pipeline and his latest book, Smart Object Pipeline.

Eric took in a few orders for the new IR Conversion service we are offering through Precision Camera. Folks are excited to learn about a new option for their older cameras and that we can make true silver prints from their IR files.

There were many great workshops and photographers on hand to discuss their work, travel programs and various techniques. Ron Rosenstock had a great talk on both Friday and Saturday. People are excited to see his new work, Infrared, was printed at Digital Silver Imaging and that we have his images on display at our gallery. We had taken two of his images with us to the show.

The trade shows are most fun when we get to meet people and make new friends. Paul Friedman owns a great rental company called Lens Pro to Go in West Concord MA. He has been in business for over 3 years and has built up a solid reputation and provided outstanding service for photographers looking to rent all kinds of Canon and Nikon gear.

Nik Software has included Digital Silver Imaging in their July newsletter under their promotions section. Nik Silver Efex Pro is our favorite Photoshop Plugin. It has dramatically improved our work flow at the lab and consistently produces the best files we have printed here on our true gelatin silver papers. Nik has recognized DSI as one of the premier B&W; digital photo labs in the country.

Remember, you can order Nik Software and use the DSI code for a 15% discount plus get processing discounts only at DSI.

Order your copy of Nik Software today through DSI and save!

Digital Silver Imaging has partnered with Precision Camera of CT to provide the absolute best Digital IR conversions. Precision Camera offers the finest in camera repair and has factory trained technicians. They also have the most sophisticated camera and lens calibration equipment. Precision’s is also doing the conversions at a fraction of the cost compared to the competition. You shouldn’t have to spend too much to turn your under utilized camera into a creative tool.

Digital Silver Imaging has partnered with Precision because Infrared Photography has generally been a Black & White medium. When Precision launched the new service, we decided to partner with Precision to unite the their technical component of IR photography with our true B&W; printing services. It makes perfect sense to bring these two services together.

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DSI is offering free return shipping on any conversion in July or August.