Sailing on Lake Almanor, California

by Sherri on September 3, 2010

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Sailing at Sunset on Lake Almanor in Plumas County, California.

Every day during our recent camping trip to Lake Almanor, Jeff and I would head down to the lake for a sunset photo shoot. We knew there would be plenty of subjects to photograph, but each time there was something new and exciting. It happened to be sailing on this particular day.

I love to shoot action and I love to sail. However, I didn’t have much experience photographing this adventure sport until now. These three amigos were a lot of fun to photograph and the weather couldn’t have been better!

Do you love to sail, kayak, canoe, fish, camp, ride bikes, swim or water ski? Lake Almanor offers all of these activities and more! If you have ever been there, I’d love to hear about your adventures. 🙂

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend everyone!

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Mount Lassen at Sunset

by Sherri on August 20, 2010

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Mount Lassen at Sunset with Lake Almanor in the foreground, Northern California.

You might remember this photo of Mount Lassen I posted a couple of weeks ago. I was standing on a moving dock and I was having a very difficult time keeping the horizon straight. First, I shot this scene without the lake in the foreground. Then, when there was a little break from the wakes, I shot a few photos which included the lake. This one came out straight, but many of the others I captured did not. I am going to try straightening the horizon in a few of them in Photoshop and see what kind of results I get.

I would love your opinion on these two images. Do you prefer this image of Mount Lassen without the lake, or is the one above your favorite?

Thank you for visiting and for your comments!

Cheers,

Sherri

Sunset on Mount Lassen

by Sherri on August 5, 2010

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Mount Lassen, California at Sunset.

We just spent a few days in wonderful Plumas County in Northeastern California, where the Sierras meet the Cascades. One of the shots I wanted to capture was of Mount Lassen viewed from Lake Almanor. Even though I did quite a bit of research ahead of time, it still took awhile to locate this viewpoint. This image can now be purchased as a Fine Art Print or as Greeting Cards.

Most people want to go to Lassen National Park to capture photos of Mount Lassen, but I wanted something different. The other reason we didn’t visit the park is that we travel with a dog and National Parks are not all that “Dog Friendly!”

Comments and questions are really cool, so please keep them coming! 🙂

Cheers,

Sherri

10 Reasons Why I Love PhotoShelter!

by Sherri on July 13, 2010

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Couple kayaking Utica Reservoir, Alpine County, Northern California.

One of the questions I get asked a lot is “What do you like about your PhotoShelter Website?” Since there is so much interest in this subject, I decided rather than answering everyone individually, that it would be a good subject for a Blog post.

First of all, we don’t really have a PhotoShelter Website, we have our Website integraded with PhotoShelter. That’s how WE do it, but stand alone Websites can also be built in a matter of minutes, with one of several templates they provide.

PhotoShelter offers so many awesome features, but here are a few of my favorites. I’ll be adding to this list in future posts.

Best Bang For Your Buck!

If you are looking for a service for storing images, selling prints, licensing images to name just a few, I believe PhotoShelter is “The Best Bang for Your Buck.” They offer several plans ranging from FREE to $49.99. We currently have the Standard Plan, which costs us $29.99 per month and serves all of our current needs.

Sell Products & License Images

We upload our images to our Photo Archive, which is where all of our online images are stored. Images can be ordered as prints, or licensed for personal use, directly from our photo archive. We don’t offer automated Rights Managed images through PhotoShelter. For Rights-Managed licensing, clients contact us directly for a stock photo quote. After a fee has been determined, we invoice the client. After we receive payment, we set up a Private PhotoShelter Gallery for the client, where they can download their images.

Great SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

PhotoShelter has been working hard to improve their SEO and it and it’s finally paying off. During the last few months, we have been seeing an increased amount of traffic to our Website and we have to give credit to PhotoShelter for some of it!

Easy To Create Galleries

I love how easy it is to create galleries, copy the same images to other galleries and rearrange the images within a gallery however you want. For instance, you can find this image of Auburn, California in our Auburn Gallery. Auburn is located in the California Gold Country, so we copied it into that gallery as well. We even took it one step further for this image. Since it is a landscape image it also went into our Landscape Gallery.

Slide Shows

Slide shows can be created from any gallery with a click of a button. You can group together a selection of images in a gallery, click the slide show button and use it like a portfolio. Here is a slide show I just put together for this post. If you hover over the top of the image, you will see the photo caption. It’s pretty cool!

Free Photography Reports

PhotoShelter provides an incredible amount of marketing tools for the photographer. Their free photography reports (PDF) on blogging, social media, google analytics, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and what photo buyer’s want in photography websites are very informative.

Blog

PhotoShelter also distributes great information via their Blog “A Picture’s Worth.” There you can find a ton of really helpful articles including these:

“Top 10 Ways To Piss Off A Photographer”

“Top 10 Ways To Make A Photographer Fall In Love With You”

“Top 13 Ways To Piss Off A Photo Editor”

Grover was also kind enough to include a mention about my post on “Shooting the Amgen Tour of California” in their weekly Friday Shout-Outs!” Thanks again Grover!

Free Training

If what you have read thus far isn’t enough to convince you to join, maybe this will. PhotoShelter also offers a variety of FREE Webinars and I can tell you from personal experience, they are worth the investment in time. They even welcome suggestions for future Webinars.

Post To Social Networks

The ability to post a gallery of images directly to Facebook, Flickr, SportsShooter and Twitter is a really nice feature. Here is a gallery of images I posted directly from PhotoShelter to Facebook.

Coupons

Everyone is jumping on the “coupon bandwagon” these days including PhotoShelter. They make it really easy to offer discounts on prints and products to your customers. I thought it was so cool, I decided to give it a “test drive.” Check out my “Fans Only 4th of July Coupon Sale”, to see how I incorporated coupons into my marketing plan. I will be using them on a regular basis!

I hope this has shed at least a little bit of light on PhotoShelter. Your comments and questions are certainly welcomed and appreciated as always, so fire away!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit again sometime!

Cheers,

Sherri

Subscribe to the Sherri Meyer Photography Newsletter!

by Sherri on July 1, 2010

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McArthur-Burney Falls up close and personal, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, California

You can now sign up to receive our FREE photo newsletters. We will be sending emails out approximately once a month with news about our specials, upcoming Photo Tours/Workshops, new images, articles, Website revisions and more.

Simply click on the link in the upper right hand corner of this blog. Feel free to send a link to this post to others you know, who may also be interested in “What’s New at Sherri Meyer Photography.”

You can unsubscribe at any time.

Thank you for visiting and for signing up to receive our newsletters! Please feel free to leave a comment, or ask a question in the box below.

Cheers,

Sherri

Northern California Travel Guide Cover

by Sherri on June 23, 2010

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Kayaking on the North Fork of the American River, near Auburn, California.

We are really excited. We just licensed this photo of the kayaker’s for the cover of a Northern California Travel Guide. When we get our tearsheets (copies of the publication) from the publisher, we will scan the cover and post it here on the blog.

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Thank you for visiting. Your comments and questions are very appreciated! 🙂

~Sherri

New Hiking, Kayaking & Rafting Images!

by Sherri on June 3, 2010

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Steve Hadley & Peg Challender stop to enjoy the scenery on the East Ridge Trail at the Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park, near Coloma, California.

We have been really busy shooting adventure & outdoor lifestyle images lately. While we have been doing our share of complaining about the strange weather we have been having this year, it has been better than normal for photography.

By this time of the year, the landscape in this area is usually brown. But, as you can see in this photo I captured over Memorial Day Weekend, it is still very green. There are also still a lot of wildflowers in the Sierra Foothills, as compared to a normal year.

The photo above of our friends Steve & Peg is one of many new photos we captured on a beautiful Spring day in the Sierra Foothills.

See more Adventure and Outdoor Lifestyle Images on our Sherri Meyer Photography Business Page, or by visiting our Adventure and Outdoor Lifestyles photo archive.

Thank you for stopping by. Comments & questions are always welcomed & appreciated.

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New California Gold Country Travel & Adventure Images

by Sherri on May 26, 2010

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All female group of whitewater rafters having a "boatload" of fun on the South Fork of the American River, Pilot Hill, California.

This month has been a great month for capturing new travel and adventure images here in the California Gold Country. The image above is just one of several new images we captured during a recent photo shoot at the Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park.

To see more images from this shoot, please visit our Fan Page. Feel free to become a Fan of Sherri Meyer Photography while you are there, by clicking on the “Like” button. To learn about becoming a Fan, please read “Why Become a Fan of Sherri Meyer Photography.”

You can see a lot more of our travel and adventure images by visiting our Website.

As always, thank you for visiting and comments & questions are very welcomed and appreciated.

Cheers,

Sherri

Auburn Fine Art Prints Available

by Sherri on May 13, 2010

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The famous No Hands Bridge in Auburn, California. This is one of our best selling images!

Wow. We are really excited about this coming weekend. The Amgen Tour of California bike race (with Lance Armstrong) will be rolling through our town, Auburn, California (also known as “The Endurance Capital of the World“). We also just found out they will be 1/2 mile from our house, as they make their way down to Old Town. I think that is pretty cool.

We will be out photographing them at various locations in the area. I also wanted to mention that we have one of the largest (if not the largest) collections of Auburn Images available online. They can be purchased as Fine Art Prints, or they can be licensed for commercial, editorial or personal use.

We have images of the Foresthill Bridge (California’s tallest bridge), The American River, the Historic Auburn Courthouse, the famous No Hands Bridge and more.

Check out our Print Specials Gallery for our current specials and we have more Auburn images in our Auburn Gallery. For information on how to order, please see our “How to Order Prints” page.

Maybe we will bump into you while you are in town for this big event. If not, thank you for stopping by and taking a peek at our Auburn images.

If you have any questions about our images or about the Auburn area, please feel to ask it in the comments section below.

~Sherri

Where Have I Been?

by Sherri on May 5, 2010

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Peg Challender working in her garden in the Sierra Foothill's.

Where have I been?

In a nutshell…I’ve been sick. Came down with the flu, which lasted 4 weeks. During this time, Jeff & I had two trees taken down and we did all the clean up. Did I mention the endless mowing? With all of the rain we have had this year, there has been more yard work than ever. We have also been updating our Website, so there has been no time for blogging until now.

Last week was our Anniversary week. We were heading for the desert, then we decided to head for the coast. Guess what we did instead? We took a “Staycation.” Since I was still a little under the weather (Jeff eventually got sick too), we stayed home and worked on the projects mentioned above. We did manage to get out for two hikes/photo shoots.

When you live in a place like we do, there are so many things to do, it makes it a lot easier to vacation in our own backyard! We live in “One of the Best Recreational Playgrounds in the Country!”

We hiked the Codfish Falls Trail and the Cronan Ranch Regional Park Trails, both among our favorite local places to hike. Click here to see a video Jeff made of our hiking adventure on the Codfish Falls Trail. To see a great photo of Codfish Falls, check out this post by Leon Turnbull of waterfallswest.com.

Coming Soon! New images from our most recent hike at the Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park.

Thank you for visiting and as always comments & questions are welcomed and appreciated! 😉

~Sherri

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