Lately, many sites have been coming out with series of photographer interviews to help share the work and inspiration of our creative fellows with the larger photographic community. From Crash Taylor to Canon Blogger to Dave Cross’ “Finish the Sentence.” And I think it’s great! In some small way, I like to think that my “P&P Blogger Profiles” had something to do with this new dialogue, but I doubt it.

As I look around at these sites and take in all of the tremendous insights and experience of the featured guest, I notice that Photoshop and post-processing as a whole is only a small part of the discussion. It’s true that these days it’s almost impossible to talk about photography without talking about what happens in post. But there hasn’t been much of a forum for talking about Photoshop’s place in culture or to hope and dream, or gripe, about one of our favorite pieces of software.

That’s about to change. On the second Monday of each month, starting next Monday, we will feature a new interview with a member of the Photoshop community.

I’ve already got a “Who’s Who” of interviewees lined up including Adobe’s Project Manager for Photoshop John Nack, NAPP Executive Director Larry Becker, Adobe Creative Systems Engineer Mike McHugh, African Safari leader Andy Biggs, and photowalker extrodinaire Jeff Revell. And I’m waiting for confirmation from a number of others.

As this will be an on-going series, I am always open to suggestions for new subjects to interview. If you have any ideas, please let me know so I can make contact and secure them as an upcoming guest.

Please be sure to stop back on Monday for my interview with Adobe’s own John Nack!

Following one of our recent editions of The P&P Weekly, I received an unexpected email from Friend-of-the-Blog Marshall Garlington from f/11. I had chosen one of his recent photos to feature in “The Weekly” and commented how it was one of my favorites from the week. He told me how he wanted to share his process on the photo as a guest post here and was wondering if I would be willing to do that. I agreed in a second!

But more than being glad to have a day off from blogging, I was inspired to revive and reshape the former “P&P Workflow” series and provide a forum for fellow creatives to offer insights into their photographic and post-processing workflows so that the rest of us might pick up some tips, tricks, and inspiration!

Starting this Friday and continuing as a regular feature every other Friday we will welcome a new guest blogger who will walk us through a photo from start to finish - not just the step-by-step “how-to” of it, but also, perhaps some of the “why” as well.

If you would like to participate and provide a workflow of your own based on a favorite photo of yours, please send me an email and I’ll add you to the schedule!

So be sure to come back this Friday with our first installment featuring Marshall Garlington!

Today marks our first shooting day for the “On the 4th” photo project!

To participate, simply take a photo at anytime, of anything, between 12:00am and 11:59pm today and send it in to me for inclusion in the project.

Full details can be found here. Happy shooting!

Welcome to week forty-four of Geographic Composition! For each edition of the project a number of my fellow photobloggers and I will submit an image based on a common theme from our scattered locations around the world. Even though the theme is the same, our own vision and view of the world when coupled with the geographic and cultural environment in which we live will shape the images we create and offer a varied interpretation on the topic of the week.

This week, our theme is “Moving Parts.”

Geographic Composition is an open photographic project and we welcome new contributors all the time. For more information, please read over our “Call for Entries” post and stop back here for upcoming themes and posting dates.

Our coming themes/dates are:

• Week #45 - January 16: “Green”
• Week #46 - January 30: “Shadows”
• Week #47 - Frbruary 13: “Round”
• Week #48 - February 27: “Contasts”
• Week #49 - March 13: “Wood”
• Week #50 - March 27: Contributor’s Favorites

Please take a moment to view the participants’ blogs. And, as always be sure to send me new themes and topics in the comments below.

Thanks, and Enjoy!

“Electric Sound”
Andy Smith - Hanover, PA

Jason D. Moore - Endicott, NY

“Cape Cod Windmill”
Photo Credit: Jo Ann Godfrey
Submitted by: Dr. David Jones - Muskogee, OK

Happy New Year!

Inspired by a few different photo projects I’ve seen over the past couple of years, one of our newest series involves photographs taken on the 4th of each month.

Here’s how it works:

• Any photographer who would like to participate will agree to take a photo at some point between 12:00am and 11:59pm on the 4th of each month.
• There is no set theme. Shoot whatever you want. Let the moment move you.
• The goal is to provide a unique perspective of the similarities and differences of our unique and varied experiences on a given day throughout the year from our scattered locations around the country and world.
• Participants should send their photos to me as email attachments (not within the body of the email), optimized for the web, and no larger than 800 pixels on the longest side, by the 20th of each given month so I can post the collection at the end of the month.
• Please title your photo with the time it was taken (with time zone) and include your name and the location of the photo. If you have a blog or website, send that along as well.
• By December 2009, we will have a collection of photos from the 4th of every month, hopefully from around the world!

I would like to especially encourage our friends from outside the US to participate. While every perspective is of value, I think that non-US views can provide an interesting dimension and level of interest to the project as a whole.

I do ask that those who choose to participate would commit to each month of this project. Obviously, things come up and it’s possible to miss one, but I hope to make the entire collection as complete as possible. I think this can be an exciting new series and I look forward to see how many of you will be taking part!

This Sunday is the first 4th of the year and I hope many of you will join me and shoot off a frame!