I am honored to announce that I was asked to display my photo of Garland Wetland reserve at the Fairborn Government Center. This photo was originally done for the 2019 Fairborn Art Association landscapes juried art exhibition. The juried art exhibition was sponsored by B-W Greenway community land trust.  In that competition this photo won a judges merit award.  I was surprised when they asked me to have my photo displayed again. For the next 3 months you can visit the Fairborn Government center and see my photo along with several other pieces from different artists.  As soon as you enter the government center turn left and they are on display in a hallway.  My piece along with the others are for sale there if you are interested please contact me.

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City of Fairborn Government Center
44 W Hebble Ave, Fairborn, OH 45324
https://www.fairbornoh.gov

When using Adobe Lightroom one of the many things you will learn to do is culling or weeding through your pictures from an event you just shot. This process of culling or refining your list of pictures down to just the best pictures can be an extremely time consuming and tedious task.

From every photo shoot you have there will be fewer keepers than the one you delete.  So anything that can help speed up this process is worth looking into, or at least considering adding it to your workflow.  The time saving feature I am talking about is the “Auto Advance” feature of Adobe Lightroom.  What this simple but useful feature will do for you is automatically advance you to the next picture in the list after you have given it a “Pick” or a star rating in Lightroom.  This sounds really simple but it will save you one step during culling and prevent you from having to hit the right arrow key to advance to the next photo.  

Enabling Auto Advance

As with many things in all Adobe software there is more than one way to enable the Auto Advance feature in Lightroom.  

1.  On the menu bar go to the “Photo” menu and towards the bottom you will be able to click the “Auto Advance” menu item.  This will turn on “Auto Advance”

2.  Or you can simply go to your keyboard and turn on caps lock.

Now with this feature turned on as you are going through the photos from your latest photo shoot Lightroom will Auto Advance to the next photo every time you rate a photo with a pick or star rating.

Currently at the Caesar Creek State Park Visitor Center there are two of my pictures hanging in their gallery. Caesar Creek visitor center recently had a 2109 nature photography exhibition and two of my nature photos were chosen by the judges to be displayed in their exhibition.  I was very lucky to be chosen out of all the entries to have my work put on display, as not all photos submitted make it through the selection process. Each photographer was allowed to submit 3 photos for this exhibit.  There are some very beautiful photos on display.  And the Caesar Creek State Park Visitor is a great place to visit, if you have time I highly recommend you check out the visitor center and the state park.  

The Exhibition will take place between: August 31st, 2019 – December 31th, 2019, at the Caesar Creek Lake Visitor Center, located at 4020 N. Clarkesville Road, Waynesville, Ohio 45068.