Happy Father’s Day Dad!  From all those places you took us over the years, events you attended, long hours you worked and everything else it means the world.

Love,

Neil.

p.s. Go White Sox !!!

This summer I am taking part in Hike for Discovery , an endurance-hiking program where I train during a 14 week period towards a final hike at Rocky Mountain National Park. While training, I am raising money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) which is used for vital research so blood cancer patients live longer, better lives.

I was quite young when I first heard about Leukemia. The boy who lived next door to us, Ben, had Leukemia and even though he was more around my sisters age I tried to hang out with them. Of course when a boy around the age of three is hanging out with the two of them he was not always welcome. Especially when the two of them four and three years older than me were planning their whole future together. Anyways, when I do this hike I do think back to those quite early years even if one of the reminders was being tied to a fence so the little kid wouldn’t bother them.

Even with that reminder of the early years, I ask you to visit my hike page at the link below and consider making a tax-deductible donation towards this worthwhile organization. This will help enable me to achieve my fund raising goal and place money directly towards the society’s mission.

http://pages.hikefordiscovery.org/rm/rockymt08/neilcorman

I thank you in advance for anything you may be able to contribute and will keep you up to date on the progress of the training as well as the hike.

As I mentioned last week I had some images on display this past Friday during First Friday.

I would like to thank everyone who stopped by 855 Inca and the Atmosphere Creative studio this past Friday.  It was an interesting experience to discuss my work as well as other topics with everyone who stopped by the studio.

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The following is an image of the prints on display this month.

Thanks again.

Today my niece Hannah turns 4, where has the time gone?

When I talked to her this morning to wish her a happy birthday she was bouncing off the walls knowing her party was today.  She even sang Happy Birthday to me over the phone, of course including her name even if it was Happy Birthday to You.  Unfortunately with everything going on this month I was unable to make it out to the party this year, but I did see her two weeks ago in Chicago and took some pictures.

At the end of Navy Pier with a special guest (aka Daddy/Poet, Pundit, Pulpist )

Having fun at lunch…

While flying home from Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, I decided it would be interesting to grab a window seat and take some images. Thinking about the direction of flight and where the sun would be located I decided the ‘F’ seat would make the most sense and just hoped we would have some clear skies as we traveled east towards Denver. Being a passenger and take a pictures out of a window in an airplane further limits the control you may have in regards to taking an image. Not only do you not have control of the light and sky conditions as normally is the case while outdoors you also don’t have control of your location, the direction facing, obstructions (i.e. engine, wing and dirty window) and a clean window to name just a few. Also did I mention you are moving at a quick rate of speed so grabbing the image you see is limited in time. My main objective while take images on this flight was to compose some interesting scenes I was passing by at 35,000 feet.

The following images are a few of the many I took during the flight of under two hours using a Canon G9 point and shoot camera.

Lake Mead Shoreline (Brine Spring Area)

San Juan River near Piute Canyon

Descending through the clouds

Final Approach

During the month of June, I will have some pieces of work on display at the Atmosphere Creative studio located at 855 Inca (one block east of Santa Fe).  Once you enter the main door at 855 Inca it is the first studio space on the left which currently is noted by a sign for Jonathan Howie who also displays work at this location.

This space is open on an appointment basis, however during First Friday on June 6th it will be open from 6pm – 9pm.  The Art District on Santa Fe features many different artists, and you will find the location on Inca to be convenient to this as well a little laid back with the amount of people in the gallery at any one time.  This allows me to talk to more of the people who come through the gallery and answer questions about the work.

If you are planning on attending First Friday, be sure to head over from Santa Fe on 9th and stop at the new Artwork Network location prior to heading to 855 Inca to see a variety of work displayed in the building as well as stop by and say hello to me.

See you Friday!

You may have noticed the greatly expanded website while visiting today. Going through the archives of photographs I have posted a representation in the gallery area of photographs from the various areas I have visited in the past few years. In the upcoming months I will continue to rotate the images listed in the gallery so you will always see the latest and best work from my collection.

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Lastly, I am always interested in hearing your feedback on the website or specific images. When looking at specific images there is a link included allowing you to supply feedback on the specific image. Additionally, you may provide Comments, Questions or Suggestions through an online form. I read each comment sent and use it to improve the images, website or anything else which may be mentioned from the viewers of the site.

Thanks for stopping by today.

The unofficial start of summer is here, and you may have completed your spring cleaning or it may be still on the to do list. Either way if you have or know you will have a pile of stuff which will needs to be removed you should check out College Hunks Hauling Junk .

College Hunks Hauling Junk originally started in the Washington DC area, but they now have franchisees across the country. Before hauling that demo material, old carpet, yard waste and most other items to the dump they try to recycle the materials or donate it to one of their partners.

I became familiar with CHHJ through their Denver franchisee who I have done some photographic work for in the past. So if there is a job which is producing some waste and you don’t want to have a rolloff dumpster in your driveway check them out.

Tomorrow a new group of photographers will start the 20th Summer Intensive program at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography .  This will mark one year since I made the leap from a software consultant to a photographer.  A lot has changed in the course of the last year and the five months I spent in Missoula, Montana.  I am now pursuing a career in photography and am fulfilled in doing so.  While has been great, so has keeping in contact with the people I met and spent time with while in Missoula.

One year later, I still keep in close contact with the fellow photographers in my group as we share and critique images, in addition to acting as a sounding board as we move forward with our photography from Scranton to San Francisco to Dallas and as high up as Aspen and many places in between.  I also keep in contact with a few people outside my initial group and am constantly stunned by the images they are producing also keeping me inspired as I move forward.

The decision to head to Montana for the summer was one which I didn’t know was the correct decision, but sitting here in Denver a year later and looking at the direction I am going I can certainly say it was the right decision.