2013 is only 2½ weeks away, if we make it pass the Mayan end of the world on 21-Dec-2012 aka 21/12/12 or 12/12/21. As a photographers, I have a list to prepare for the new 2013 year. One of the item on my list is to update my copyrights. My problems is that I need to change the copyright ©2012 to ©2013 in too many places:

• My website in the footers
• My cameras
• My various software
• My contracts

What used to take 15 minutes now is almost a full hour.

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One of the big strength of Lightroom is its flexibility. There's always more than one way of doing things in Lightroom. This flexibility is also one of the source of frustration with many users. Lightroom's flexibility allows for the almost infinite customization of your own workflow.

One of my most often used step is to clear the whole desktop, use Lightroom's Grid view (“g”) and pick, reject, grade with 1 star… Everything that looks “real bad” gets marked as rejected (“x”) in the first round.

Just last week, the end of November 2012, was the biggest Powerball draw, $587.5 millions before tax. In the US, even lotteries are part of your earnings. “Lady Luck” smiled to the 2 people who won the draw and will share the $587.5 millions. The chances of winning were 1 in 175 million.

Meanwhile at the ranch, I was at a presentation, there would be a draw with some prizes at the end. 7 prizes + 12 t-shirts, grand total 19 prizes. They gave the half of the tickets at the entrance with the other half went into the bucket. Before the presentation started, I counted 21 people.

Getting a business card is an important step. A business card makes you a legitimate “whatever.” As photographers, we are visual people but very of us are designers and even less of us are good designers.

There are a few alternatives:

1. Hire a designer. My first time, I did exactly that. She was a friend of a friend and in the end I was not happy with her design. Good designers are just as hard to find as good photographers.
2. Buy or get a template. Some are free but, they usually cost between a couple of dollars and the fifty dollar range.

I was showing some photos and I got the usual “compliment”

You must have a good camera.

What made this compliment different is that the person kept on with:

It must be a professional camera.

The standard answer is “it's not the camera, it's the photographer that makes the photographs”, but we all know that it's not true even among photographers.