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April 2007 Rod Barbee Photography Newsletter
Greetings
Just getting ready to head off to Arizona and Utah for a couple of workshops and some personal shooting. Around here, spring is manifesting in the form of cherry blossoms popping, leaves budding, and baseball season starting. In fact, on Monday I'm going to opening day of the Seattle Mariners' season.

Before I head off to the southwest, I want to pass on a couple of things.

Latest Sensor Cleaning Tool
 
The latest in sensor cleaning is a product called Dust- Aid. It's an adhesive pad that you place on your sensor and pull up all the dust bunnies you've been collecting. Take a look at this video and if it looks like something you'd like, you can visit the Dust-Aid website. and place an order.

Reviews I've read, including those here and here, about this product have been positively glowing. I've had it for only a few days and I can tell you that it's easy to use and that it's effective.
If you have any spots such as streaks from previous cleanings, or old moisture spots, you'll need to resort to the sensor swab and liquid method.
All in all, I think this is one of the better sensor cleaning options available, and at $40 it's reasonably priced as well.
Before ordering, be sure to check the Camera Compatability link on the Dust-Aid website.

Now Taking Pre-orders for My Latest Book
 
My latest book, The Photographer's Guide to Puget Sound and Northwest Washington (that's a long title, isn't it?), is scheduled for a June 4th release, but I'm taking pre-orders now for autographed copies.

The price is $14.95 (plus tax for WA residents) plus $2 shipping. Click here to go to my order page.
As soon as I get books from the publisher (hopefully prior to June 4), I'll mail out the orders.

Workshop Updates
 
Most of the workshops I'm doing this year have already sold out, but there are still a few that have some space left.
As far as I know, there's still one space left in the Oly mpic National Park workshop I'm doing for The Nature Workshops.
I'm also doing an Oregon Coast workshop for the same company and there's still room in that one as well.

The Canadian Rockies workshop I'm doing with Don Mammoser in September is about half full and there is still plenty of room in the Vermont Fall Color tour I'm doing with David Middleton in October.

Newletter Archives
 
If you've missed out on any of my fun-filled, jam- packed, scintillating newsletters....uh, right.
Anyway, if you've missed any, or just want to go back in time, I've posted the monthly newsletters back to November 2005. I'll be adding the rest soon, but at least you'll have access to the entire history of Bailey the Labradoodle.

To access the newsletters, just go to my website and click on the Newsletters Archive link.

Patagonia 2008
 
In February of next year I'll be joining David Muench and Jack Dykinga on a trip to Patagonia. I'll be there providing technical help for both digital and film shooters as well as assisting in logistics.
For more information and to download an itinerary, visit the Distinctive Journeys website.
This looks like a fantastic trip to one of the world's most dramatic landscapes and I'm really looking forward to it. I hope some of you can join me.

That's all for now. I'll most likely be posting more information on the Patagonia trip soon; it just came up and I wanted to be sure to tack it on to this newsletter.

Until next month.

 

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