Paul J. Sumberg, Sr.

Blairsville Arts and Crafts Festival

Paulie — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:51:41 +0000

With my first outdoor show behind me, I’m declaring it a success! I am excited and looking forward to the next opportunity.

I met some really nice people, learned a thing or two and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am delighted that some of my work is now hanging in the homes of my new home town neighbors.
Here are some of the pieces that folks took home with them.

My work received many compliments and I enjoyed talking with people about the various pieces that caught their eye. Thank you all for stopping in to look and talk. I hope to see or hear from you again.

I also want to thank the Blairsville Downtown Development Authority and Robin Roberts Promotions for making this year’s show a success. Robin Roberts Promotions was only brought in to organize the show late in the process. I know Robin and her crew worked very hard to make it as smooth and successful as it was. I couldn’t have chosen a better venue for my 1st show.

IT’S BACK . . . . . . ADOBE LIGHTROOM BUG

Paulie — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:23:11 +0000

In the summer of 2010 I stumbled upon a problem with ADOBE Lightroom. After several phone calls to ADOBE’s support department, a problem was opened, a bug report submitted, bug fix request opened and subsequently the problem was fixed.

That is until now. I upgraded to version 4.0 recently and over the past couple days, spent a good deal of time creating a catalog of certain images. OOPS!

The bug was this: The search and the sort functions didn’t always recognize the aspect ratios of images. While ADOBE worked on the fix, they discovered a work-around which works on this re-occurance of the problem. Simply select the images and rotate them in any direction and then back again.

Apparently this causes the database to be updated with the correct aspect ratio????? (I guess) Whatever, the work-around works.

I submitted a bug report today and also sent a short email to the really helpful tech (I’m serious, she was great to work with) who handled my problem in 2010. Hopefully we’ll see a fix soon.

Photo Shoot at the A.T. and Noontootla Creek

Paulie — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:28:39 +0000

I went with the Blue Ridge Mountain Photographers on a shoot today. It was a fun trip and we saw some beautiful landscapes. This was a spot where the Appalachain Trail, Benton MacKaye and Duncan Ridge trails all use the same path.

The site is only about 15 miles from my house so you can bet I’ll return (with my dog).

Spring house cleaning

Paulie — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:27:14 +0000

Honestly, I have had this on my to-do list for 10 months. I think that seeing all the beautiful spring flowers popping up around me motivated me to finally update the Flowers and Plants gallery.

http://paulsumberg.com/galleries/flowers-and-plants/

Found Off Road Dead

Paulie — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:19:47 +0000

I made my semi-annual run across the mountains into civilization to stock up on supplies this week. I take way-back roads to get there.

Along the way I spotted this old FORD truck.

Foggy glen

Paulie — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:49:45 +0000

This is from an early morning walk earlier this week.

Every day brings me the opportunity to witness nature’s beauty here in the mountains of North Georgia.

Lightroom 4 beta has a great mapping function

Paulie — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:01:14 +0000

I spent a few minutes with ADOBE’s Lightroom 4 Beta this morning and checked out it’s MAP function. It’s great. You can select a map location (Google Maps), drill down to the exact spot you want and add the photo to the map and at the same time add latitude and longitude to the photo’s metadata. How cool is that?

Not going into Weather Underground’s photo gallery

Paulie — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:13:30 +0000

Friends have encouraged me to place some of my images in the Weather Underground gallery. This morning I read the fine print. By uploading an image to their gallery, I grant them a perpetual non-exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable right to pretty much use, sell, or modify my image however and whenever they wish.

So, I won’t be placing this image in their gallery.

View from Brasstown Bald, the highest peak in the North Georgia Mountains.

Or this one:

NOT PHOTOCRATI

Paulie — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:36:38 +0000

Well alrighty then . . . . .

After several years of struggling with the PHOTOCRATI theme for my WordPress website, I gave up. I purchased it because they did a fair job (at the time) of displaying images and seemed to be photography centric. They also had a working integration of the Simple PayPal Shopping Cart. Over time I realized they were to be oriented toward wedding or portrait photographers and fell short for showing or selling fine art photography.

PHOTOCRATI promised a lot but in my opinion, rarely delivered what was promised and failed to meet their announced delivery dates. I’m not saying their theme won’t work for many photographers. To their credit, I have to say they fully refunded my purchase price long after their standard guarantee period. The theme just didn’t work for me and their promises of making it better just prolonged the redesign of my website month after month.

Finally, I scrapped everything and started with a fresh WordPress installation, a new theme and a hand full of plugins and I am pleased with the results.

If you happen across this blog post and are interested in what theme or plugins I’m using, shoot me a note and I’ll be happy to tell you.

Peace out Y’all.
Paul

Waterfall at Jefferson Davis Memorial Park

Paulie — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:11:12 +0000

Just off the campus of Young Harris College is this small waterfall at Jefferson Davis Memorial Park.

Cool, Clear and Refreshing