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More About Africa ~ Sparrow Schools

It’s only a few days until I’m wheels up and off to South Africa for two weeks. I suppose I’m feeling all the regular emotions, excitement, concern, anticipation and unpreparedness. Some of those aren’t really emotions but I certainly do feel them.

I thought I’d share a little about Sparrow Schools as we’ll be working with them on this trip. Their video below does a good job of providing an overview of some of the challenges facing South African youth and what Sparrow is doing to address them. I’m really looking forward to meeting the students and staff.

If you missed it here’s a link to another post with more details about my volunteer trip to Africa and how you can help me get there to make a difference. Enjoy the video.

Holiday Hours

Our office and studio will be closed from noon Thursday December 23, 2010 and will reopen Monday January 3, 2011.  We wish you and your loved ones a very merry Christmas and a wonderful new year.

Remembrance Day 2010 Stittsville Ontario

Today, I had the honour of attending my local Remembrance Day ceremony here in Stittsville.  Each year Dale Hogan Photography takes pause, to in some small way remember.  Remember the sacrifice, remember the bravery, remember the fallen.

This year, as our way of saying, “Lest we Forget”, we are freely offering the images captured at today’s commemorative service held in Stittsville.   Simply follow this link to our 2010 Remembrance Day Gallery for your free downloadable images.

My sincere thanks to all who have and continue to serve our great nation!

Scott Kelby’s Annual Worldwide PhotoWalk 2010

PhotoWalk 2010

On Saturday, July 24, 2010, the whole world will be walking again with Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and #1 bestselling computer and technology book author, in the Third Annual Worldwide Photo Walk™.

Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk is the world’s largest global social photography event in the history of photography itself. It takes place on the same day around the world where photographers of all walks of life and skill levels gather together, usually in downtown areas to socialize, learn new tips from each other, and explore their corner of the world through photography.

“In 2008, we had 241 walks,” said Scott Kelby, founder of NAPP, editor-in-chief of Photoshop User magazine, and president of Kelby Media Group. “Last year, we had over 900 walks with over 32,000 photographers participating. We did the math… your average photographer will take upwards of 300 photos during a photo walk. That means that nearly 10 million pictures were taken in that one single day that may never had happened otherwise. I think that’s pretty cool and we all can’t wait to see what happens this year.”

There is no fee to participate but pre-registration is required. Just go to the Worldwide Photo Walk site, find a walk near you, and join in on the fun. If there is no Photo Walk in your area feel free to register to lead a walk of your own.

Anyone can participate too. All you need is a camera. It doesn’t even matter what kind of camera either. People have showed up with disposables in the past, had a blast, and left with a new appreciation for photography.

PhotoWalk 2010

Dymo DiscPainter & Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Well, here’s a little more on the new print driver that DYMO put out for the DiscPainter on Snow Leopard.  I’ve done a little more digging around and found others who had a similar issues.  That got me thinking that the driver was the issue.  In part, that is true, however, updating the driver for the DiscPainter on Snow Leopard is a two step process.  Granted the process could be made much more clear.  Be that as it may, after installing the new driver, you must update the firmware.  Sadly, because my  last attempt to test the new driver ended in a small disaster, which included the destruction of my almost new print cartridge, I am unable to test this solution.  I’ll be ording up a new print cartige shortly and I’ll post once I’ve tested this.

In the mean time, if any of you are running the DYMO DiscPainter on Max OS X Snow Leopard and happen to have had the same issues I did; Did you install the firmware update after installing the new driver?  If not, would you do so and post back here in the comments section, letting us all know how it goes?

For your conveince, here is a link to the new DYMO print driver and firmware update for the DiscPainter.