I’m in the process of moving up from “windows vista” to the new and improved “windows 7.” I’ve fought it long enough…and if it weren’t for my countless hours of troubleshooting some device driver shenanigans, I’d probably still be using Vista. But alas, desperate times call for desperate measures..enter windows 7. Unfortunately it wasn’t an over-night upgrade. In fact it has taken me multiple days to reinstall my software and work up the motivation to get things back up and running. Well it’s finally done and I am back in full swing.
Lots of news to cover today. Some good…some bad. We’ll get the bad news out of the way first. (deep breathe)…
I was forced to sign a non-compete agreement with my employer (not just me, the entire company actually). Things we’ll begin to unfold in the next couple weeks, so I’m going to keep the details relatively low for now, but basically I am “not allowed” to “charge” for private one-on-one camera tutoring as of yesterday. This will only be in effect as long as I am employed by the company…which won’t be forever 
. And I do believe that the non-compete agreement restricts me from “charging money” for tutoring. I don’t recalling it say anything about “trade.” shrug,
So with that…The photoshop elements workshop is going to have to be put on hold for now. With that said, I’m still moving forward to put the workshop together and when I have everything ready to go, we’ll go from there. I have already found a location to host it, I need to get a bunch of computers to use and write up a lesson plan though, so I’ve got quite a bit of work ahead of me anyways.
Enough of the bad news though. On to the good. I was fortunate enough to shoot my friends “Erich and Jamie Dalke’s” wedding last weekend, and it was gorgeous! Once I have their photos complete, I’ll post a bunch. They look great!
I’m still working out details, but I will be shooting promotional photos for the band: “How to Build a Fire.” I’m really excited about that! Please check them out and become their friend on facebook!
And I’ve shot some promotional shots for the Vancouver Vineyard’s “coming soon” website.
More to come…
too bad, does the shop offer a photoshops elements workshop? if not, it is not a violation of non-compete.
love the picture of the polar bear.
Thanks, The polar bear is my new desktop photo. Shot it at the zoo. As of right now, the shop doesn’t offer any photoshop classes…in our area. They will start offering one-on-one tutoring though, and if a group of more than two people wants a lesson, we can make that happen (is what we were told). So it’s a gray area. The non-compete is more constricting than you might believe, and even though I didn’t want to sign it, our job was threatened if we didn’t sign.