Save for the light from the LCD of my laptop, it is still vey dark. And very early. Even the snow, unusual for North Carolina at this time of year, has yet to lighten the darkness. The cats have been fed. Anaximander, white save for gray left on his head and tail, has decided I am worthy of attention this morning, and he keeps pressing his head into my hand as I type. Or try to. Cats are that way, after all.
Coffee is brewing and its smoky darkness already rises around me. As I always do at this time of the darkened morning, I imagine what it will be like to savor that first sip.
end of the year is less than two weeks away. There is a flurry of activity here as we rush to complete as much work as we can. One hundred and twenty five prints leave Monday for Honduras – our largest single print order in our history – to be sold by Royal Caribbean at the Port of Roatan – and many small orders that will be Christmas presents still wait to be printed.
It has been a memorable year here. Changes abound. New web sites. New equipment. New partners. New places we have worked. From the canyons north of Cedar City, Utah, to the remote village of Punta Gorda, Roatan, Honduras, there has been no end to interesting places. We missed a military coup by a matter of hours, and we survived a Chrysler Sebring convertible on a snow and ice covered mountain road high in the mountains of Utah. More memories that we will add to those we have gathered over the past seven years.
For me, personally, it was a good year as well. I received my third Image of the Day on One Model Place for a photo I did as part of a series with isis, my muse. Five selections from other series were published on Michelle7. One, isis and Demeter, was the “cover” in September. My thanks to isis, Demeter and Innana, for sharing their beauty with me. My work was featured on NextCat, Behance and on Deviant Art I was part of seven features. Not bad all in all.
It was a good year for the firm as well. FJ Westcott named us to its Top 100 Endorsed Pros. X-Rite named us to its Coloratti. There were new partnerships with Chimera, Pocket Wizard, Sekonic, and Induro. Our work was on the cover of several different publications. Traffic on the web site tripled to more than 100,000. We were discovered in Asia – fully fifteen percent of our hits come from China now.
There will be more changes in 2010. Among them: Videos will come to the blog and to the seminar site. We will become a content delivery company. While photography will remain our core business, with Blue Flame 6 Productions, video production will become as important and increasingly, our work will be targeted toward mobile devices. We even have a Canon camcorder that will let us chronicle our life on the road for this blog. This week we released our 2009 portfolio still video formatted – and downloadable from our site – in formats for BlackBerry, iPod, iPhone, and Palm Treo Pro smart phones. Our goal is to deliver content any where in the world, on demand.
Coffee’s ready. Sun is nearly up. Time to head out. From all of us here at NyghtFalcon, best wishes for 2010 and our thanks for all you have given us this year.
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