I have a Tasmania photo gallery up along with many of the other Adobe Photoshop Adventure crew. Additionally, Digital Railroad Marketplace is featuring the photographers from the adventure on their blog, as well as hosting our images from Tasmania.
You can also win a free trip to Tasmania, no strings attached! There aren't too many people signed up at this point, so the chances are about as good as they get for a sweepstakes like this.
Photographer Gerald Bybee and I pulled off organizing a very informative session last night in San Francisco. I work on the board with the local chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers. The ASMP seems a bit behind the times when it comes to the massive changes associated with the explosion on the web that are dramatically altering the photo industry and indeed the very fabric of our culture! So it was exciting to get the general counsel of ASMP and the VP of Creative Commons, along with some other well known lawyers to discuss the new world of Copyright 2.0 in a Hyper Digital Age.
Read about "Copyright 2.0: Copyrights? Copyleft? What rights are left?" »
I am shooting in Tasmania as part of a project spearheaded by photographer, writer and technologist Mikkel Aaland. The project is described on the O'Reilly website as "a group of internationally renowned photographers will travel to the end of the world, literally, to the remote island of Tasmania. Their mission is to road test specialized digital photography software designed by Adobe while capturing images from one of the world's most mysterious and varied geographic locations"
Read about "In Tasmania Road Testing Adobe's LightRoom 2.0" »
Lightroom Mastery
Wednesday, January 23
Monday, February 4
6-10 pm
In my opinion, with Adobe's Lightroom, I feel that photographers finally have a
sophisticated and time-saving software tool that matches the challenges,
new demands and opportunities of digital photography. Lightroom is 95% of what I use these days for post production and organization of a shoot.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use Lightroom efficiently and effectively for the post production RAW workflow from import images from a camera, organization, captioning and keywording in the Library module, to advanced color correction, spot removal, sharpening and more in the Develop module to publishing webpages in the Web module.
Jeff Pflueger Photo Media will have booth space at New York's PictureHouse event.
Read more about the event and the booth here.
The ASMPNorCal Quarterly has a nice profile about my work and some of my recent photography from Syria and Lebanon - including an image of the ruins of Palmyra on the cover. You can download a PDF of the magazine here.
Al Jazeera English runs a couple of stories that we did in Damascus.
Read about "Some Stories on Iraqi Refugees we did in Damascus, Syria" »
Jeff is in Lebanon documenting the destruction and rebuilding of the south of Lebanon and Beirut. Both areas were pounded by Israel 8 months ago in the July 2006 war.
Jeff is in Syria photographing the Iraqi refugee crisis in the country. It is estimated that Syria has absorbed 1.5 million Iraqis fleeing their country. 1.5 million represents 8% of the total population of Syria.
Route 89 doles out a greatest-hits sampling of iconic US landscapes. "It takes you to some of the national parks' most spectacular spots, but our favorite sites were discovered in between," says writer Sundeen (above, left), who drove the 1,700-mile byway with photographer Pflueger (above, right) for our feature. "Stanton was the moment for me," Pflueger says, of an odd little Arizona encampment they came across. "To meet people reinhabiting a ghost town and playing out their gold-mining dreams in the desert was like seeing the Old West come alive."
Men's Journal runs a two page spread of my photo of the Ostrander Hut in Yosemite. I wonder if the caretaker, Howard, is going crazy with all publicity that the hut is getting...then again, if Yosemite National Park sees a lot of interest in the hut, perhaps they'll stop being so cranky about it, and maybe even pave the way for more winter ski hut opportunities in the Park.
Jeff is selling limited edition prints to help to fund his coming trip to the middle east to continue his photographic work with Dahr Jamail.
Jeff's photography of Big Sur in the winter gets the front page in the New York Times travel section and a huge spread inside. Read Big Sur Without The Crowds.
Jeff is on a two week assignment shooting a story involving the American west.
Another great year at this great event. "The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference has an extraordinary reputation among publishers, editors, and writers. Alumni have published books, articles, and photos -- many as the direct result of lessons learned and contacts made at the conference. There is no finer travel writing conference anywhere in the world."
Jeff travels the Big Sur coast and surrounding area to capture the off season of this destination.
New York Times Travel publishes Jeff's photos as part of a story about skiing at Yosemite's Ostrander Hut. See Jeff Pflueger's photos. Read Mark Sundeen's story. See the NYT Travel Section's "SlideShow of the Week"
12/26-30/2005 Jeff on assignment shooting backcountry skiing in the California Sierras for the New York Times.
Jeff's photos published in a Men's Journal article documenting their descent of the class V Brazos River in New Mexico. See tear sheets.
Jeff is teaching at the Book Passage Travel Writer's and Photographer's Conference. If you haven't been, it is a wonderful annual event that gathers students from around the world and an exciting faculty.
The images are in National Geographic Adventure.
See the tear sheets.
Jeff Pflueger is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
Jeff gives slide presentations at several Bay Area REI's: 7 pm, Tues, 11/ 9 at REI Fremont - 7 pm, Wed, 11/10 at REI Corte Madera - 7 pm, Thurs, 11/11 REI Santa Rosa - 7 pm, Tues, 11/30 at REI Concord. Download the flyer
On assignment for National Geograhic Adventure in Canada
Jeff and as a team of four successfully climbs the 18,000' Mt. Foraker in the Alaska range.
Jeff gives slide presentation in Bay Area of the first ascent of 'Pi ridge' on his and Mik Shain's attempt to climb Mt. Marcus Baker from the Sea.
With a team of three others, Jeff attempts a repeat of Orland Bartholomew's 200 mile winter ski of the Sierra Crest in California.
Documenting life in Prince William Sound, Jeff completes a 600 mile, 20 day solo Alaska Sea Kayaking expedition. From Glenn Alllen, down the Copper River, through Price William Sound and out into the Gulf of Alaska to arrive in Seward.
