Thomas Hawk Digital Connection

Lotus Carroll and I had a fantastic time interviewing Carlos Miller of the famed Photography is Not a Crime blog for Episode 9 of Photo Talk Plus. Interestingly enough Carlos had just been arrested 24 hours earlier for photographing an Occupy Miami protest. This was Carlos’ third arrest for his photography (he beat the rap on the first two). Carlos has championed photographers rights since starting his blog which covers all sorts of photographer rights issues online.

In our interview with Carlos, he talks about the arrest and the fact that the police deleted his video footage of his arrest after arresting him. Unfortunately for the Miami PD, Carlos was able to retrieve the video footage that was deleted. (see below). In the recovered footage it clearly shows that there were other individuals filming the police activity and what appears to be Carlos’ being singled out for an arrest simply for participating in his Constitutionally protected 1st Amendment right to videotape the police.

In addition to our interview with Carlos we talked about some of the top weekly photography related stories from Google+ include Joe Azure’s spectacular 15 minute photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge, Google+’s unofficial 100 million user number projected by Paul Allen, Billy Wilson’s most interactive people on Google+ Circle. and an update on Ivan Makarov’s Plus One Collection book.

This episode’s panelists included Denise Ho from Google Photos, Eric James Leflar, Amy Heiden, Keith Barrett, and Peter Tsai.

Thanks as always to our sponsors SmugMug and Drobo. Be sure to check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com!

Video of Carlos Miller’s arrest while covering an Occupy Miami protest

Wow, what a show we have in store for you tomorrow night! If you are not yet familiar with the work of Jaime Ibarra, he is not only one of the most followed accounts on Google+ he is one of the most talented working photographers out there shooting today. He works with models to produce super interesting cutting edge work using both in camera and post production techniques. Be sure and check out his work on Deviant Art as well, where he is one of the most popular photographers posting over there.

Join us for this special conversation with Jaime as well as a wrap up on all the best weekly Google+ Photography News.

Along with my cohost Lotus Carroll and myself tomorrow night will be our panelists Sly Vegas, Charli Blake, Cliff Baise, Petra Cross (from Google), Joe Azure, Jackie Freeman and the Vidcast Network’s Keith Barrett.

You can catch the show LIVE at 8PM PST tomorrow night at http://vidcastnetwork.com or at my Google+ stream here. If you are watching be sure and join us in chat as well here.

As a special surprise tomorrow night Jaime also just might tell you where to get the best BBQ in Austin today!

As always thank you, thank you, thank you to our wonderful show sponsors SmugMug and Drobo. Be sure to check them out on the web at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com.

What a BLAST I had interviewing my good Pal Daniel Krieger for Photo Talk Plus Episode 8. For those of you who don’t know Daniel, he is a professional photographer working in New York City. Daniel mostly focuses on wedding and food photography and has shot for many different prestigious publications including the New York Times.

Joining my cohost Lotus Carroll is a stellar line up of mostly New Yorkers including Leanne Staples, Vivienne Gucwa, Titus Winters and Keith Barrett

Thank you as always to our wonderful sponsors SmugMug and Drobo. Check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com.

Thanks to our show sponsors SmugMug and Drobo!

I thought today would be a good day to post a photo of New York City. I took this photo in the dead of winter while it was raining/snowing in Central Park.

Tonight’s Episode of Photo Talk Plus with my cohost Lotus Carroll will include five New Yorkers talking about photography — our special guest, New York Professional Photographer Daniel Krieger, along with our New Yorker panelists Alan Shapiro Leanne Staples Vivienne Gucwa (this is her first public hangout) and Google’s Titus Winters.

The New York G+ Photo Crew have hosted many photowalks there in NYC now and promise to give us some great tips about shooting in one of the most urban environments in the United States. Don’t miss this great episode tonight at 8PM PST right here in my G+ stream and on Keith Barrett’s Vidcast Network at http://vidcastnetwork.com at 8PM PST.

Lotus Carroll and I had a GREAT time Wednesday night talking with and interviewing photographer Alan Shapiro for Episode 6 of Photo Talk Plus

If you missed the live broadcast you can catch the YouTube recording above now. We were joined by panelists Dave Cohen from Google Photos, Profesional Landscape Photographer Jeffrey Sullivan, G+ Scavenger Hunt Curator Chrysta Rae and Vidcast Network’s Keith Barrett.

During the show we talked about the new Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta, Lotus and my recent trip to photograph the North American International Auto Show with Ford Motor Company (check out my photos from the NAIAS show here) Mike Shaw’s write up on long exposure photography and the Lee Big Stopper filter, +Jeremy Cowart’s post on a new type of camera from CES, Leodor Selenier’s post on the photography of Kim Keever, and more.

This was a GREAT episode that you won’t want to miss. Sponsored by Drobo and SmugMug. Don’t forget to check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com.

Lotus Carroll and I had an AWESOME time this past Wednesday night interviewing Colby Brown on Photo Talk Plus Episode 5. Colby talked about all of the great places over the world he’s travelled to shoot (and where he’s headed this coming year), his project The Giving Lens, life as a new father, his upcoming book with Peachpit on Google+ for photographers and more. Colby also shares some of his great images and talks about the stories behind them.

Panelists Natalie Villalobos and Timothy Jordan from Google joined us along with Anna Nguyen, Michael Seneschal and Keith Barrett.

Thanks as usual to our sponsors SmugMug and Drobo who you can find at http://drobo.com and http://smu.gs/vEcBHt.

Thanks to everyone who participated on the show and in the chat room live at Vidcast Network — for those of you who missed it live don’t miss this great episode.

Last night we recorded a very special episode of Photo Talk Plus with Trey Ratcliff. Thank you to Trey who offered such a heartfelt candid personal interview about both him and his work. Trey is a very humble individual who spends so much more time promoting other photographers than his own art and work. He’s given so much to the Google+ Community and I enjoyed having an opportunity to really focus more directly on him as a person and an artist.

If you missed last night’s show, I really hope you’ll take some time to watch this episode and get to know a little bit more about Trey. Trey is a good friend and this was one of my favorite hangouts I’ve done on Google+ yet.

Thank you to everyone involved with last night’s show including my cohost Lotus Carroll and last night’s panelists Lili Ana Chris Chabot Brian Matiash (thanks for giving away a copy of onOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite) and Keith Barrett.

Thanks also to Keith for broadcasting our show as usual on the Vidcast Network and thanks to everyone who participated in the chat room while we broadcasted. You are the community and are the ones that make Google+ such a great place for photographers.

A special thank you also to our show sponsors Drobo and SmugMug

Check them out here at Drobo and SmugMug.

Thank you also to Chee Chew and everyone on the Google Hangouts team for giving us this remarkable new “On Air” feature that allows us to make these videos available here on Google+ and on YouTube.

Please join Lotus Carroll and myself tonight live for an interview with our very own Trey Ratcliff!!! Tonight’s broadcast will be LIVE at the Vidcast Network and LIVE on my Google+ stream with the new Hangouts On Air feature. Learn more about Trey’s unique photography, outlook on life, and how he has been able to build one of the most successful photography businesses on the planet today with Stuck In Customs.

Tonight’s panelists include Google’s Chris Chabot, Brian Matiash from onOne Software Lili Ana and Vidcast Network’s Keith Barrett.

In addition to tonight’s interview with Trey Ratcliff we’ll also discuss some of the top Google+ photography related stories of the past week including the upcoming Google+ Photography Book being curated by Ivan Makarov as well as the upcoming Google+ Scavenger Hunt curated by Chrysta Rae. We’ll also take questions from the chat room directly for Trey so come prepared to learn more about what makes Trey tick.

One lucky viewer tonight will also win a copy of onOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite.

This will be an episode you won’t want to miss.

As always thank you to our +Photo Talk Plus show sponsors SmugMug and Drobo for helping to bring you more great Google+ photography interviews live each week. Check them out here at SmugMug and Drobo.

If you’ve missed our first three episodes you can watch any of them here.

The show is also available as a Podcast now on iTunes.

Join +Lotus Carroll and myself tonight LIVE at 8PM PST for a very special episode of +Photo Talk Plus.

Tonight our very special guest will be none other than +Karen Hutton (pictured below with Lotus). Karen is an amazing photographer with mad processing skills who will process one of her photos live online tonight in addition to the interview.

In addition to our interview with Karen, well dissect and analyze the top photography related stories of the past week on Google+ with our panelists +Vincent Mo (from Google Photos), +sly vegas Photoshop Pro +Jan Kabili and +Keith Barrett. We’ll talk about Google’s new lightbox view that launched this week with Vincent, as well as discuss popular G+ stories this past week by +Trey Ratcliff +Ivan Makarov +Patrick Di Fruscia and more!

If you missed last week’s show with NASA Astronaut +Ron Garan you can watch that here: http://keithbarrett.com/media/photo-talk-plus-2 It was an amazing episode about space photography and Ron’s amazing photos.

We’re going to broadcast tonight’s episode of Photo Talk Plus in two places — right here in my Google+ Stream with the new On Air Hangouts, as well as on the Vidcast Network with +Keith Barrett http://vidcastnetwork.com.

We’ll have recordings after the show available on both Vidcast as well as Youtube going forward.

A special thank you to tonight’s show sponsors +SmugMug and +Drobo (follow them on Google+!!!!) and check them out at http://smugmug.com and http://drobo.com