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I’ve read at least one account of how to move photos from one Lightroom catalog to another, which is pretty common if you travel with a laptop and make edits in the field (as I do). It’s a tremendous help to be able to spend hours on the flight home organizing and even editing images, but all of that work would be for naught if there wasn’t a nice, easy way to move those images and their corresponding metadata onto your primary computer.

Fortunately, there is! I will tell you how!

Our workshop has yet to officially begin, but that doesn’t stop us from getting up well before dawn and catching a taxi down to Navy Pier to get some shooting in. Navy Pier is a “festival marketplace,” to use the term coined by the Rouse Development Company—the same company responsible for designing Quincy Market in Boston and Harborplace in Baltimore—and although it’s overrun with restaurants and eccentric attractions (such as the Amazing Chicago Funhouse & Maze Adventure), there is also a public walkway accessible even when the attractions are closed… Which they are, at 4:45 in the AM.

Here are my favorite shots from this morning. Off to a good start, I would say!

The Ferris wheel at Navy Pier is one of its most remarkable features. Here, it is reflected in the shallow pool surrounding the (currently closed) Wave Swing.

More after the jump!

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This Friday is the first day of our (that is, Art Photo Workshops) Chicago Loop photography workshop. It’s a three-day workshop focusing on the architecture and culture of Chicago for photographers of all skill levels. This is actually our first workshop of 2008, and we have a lot of great stuff planned for later in the year, so keep an eye out.

If you guys have any ideas for workshops you’d be interested in, e.g. places you’d like to go or themes you’d like to see covered, I’m all ears. Leave a comment below or drop me an e-mail (aaron-at-singleservingphoto.com). We are going to be doing some workshops locally here in New England, probably in and around Boston, New York City, Washington D.C., maybe Cape Cod, so if you’re interested in any of those ideas, feel free to drop me a line.

I just watched this entrancing short movie about Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden, known for his up-close and personal imagery from the streets of New York City.

Note how Gilden gets right up to people and even puts an off-camera flash directly in front of their faces. I was amazed at how unabashed he was with his shooting. Gilden is quoted as saying, “I’m known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.”

It has been about a month since my last post, but it feels like an eternity. There is so much going on right now and I have a lot of pots on the stove, so this will be the first of a few update posts to bring you all up to speed.

Canada is beautiful. I was able to spend a few days in Algonquin Provincial Park, the first park established in Canada and a sizable (7,000+ square kilometers, which is 1.7 million acres) wildlife sanctuary. The early spring is the best time to get up there because the moose come out of the woods and let me tell you, they are everywhere. My trip happened to coincide with Michael Reichmann’s Moose Workshop 2008, but I swear it was a coincidence.