Until a couple months ago, we were looking at our best workshop season yet.

There was renewed enthusiasm for street photography because of our move to Los Angeles for the March event. Humboldt Redwoods was a big success last year, and we were already sold out for this year. The same was true for Lassen and the Eastern Sierra.

When we toasted the 2020 New Year, I don’t think anyone saw the pandemic coming. But it stormed our shores with a mighty blast.

Our LA event was cut in half. And those who attended saw a much different world than we anticipated. Humboldt Redwoods, originally scheduled for May 2020, will be postponed to 2021. And we’re still discussing what to do after that.

So, for the remainder of the year, we adjusting course.

I’m no stranger to online community. We have a vibrant podcast with The Digital Story, I have lots of trainings on LinkedIn Learning and lynda.com, and we’ve run our own Nimble Classroom here. Judging from the prevailing wind, it’s a good thing that I’ve had so much practice.

Our first offering in the New Normal is Digitizing Family Memories. It’s a 4-week course that guides you through organizing, digitizing, and cataloging pictures from your own history. That shoebox filled with snapshots, slides, and negatives can finally be preserved in an accessible manner for both you and future generations.

Digitizing Family Memories is available on our Workshops page, and you can access it anytime you wish.

Beyond that, there will be more online community events and classes. It’s clearly the course for the future.

That doesn’t mean that we won’t once again gather in the redwoods, at a lake, or on a summit overlooking a beautiful valley below. We will. But in-between those adventures we’ll continue to learn and share by the means available to us. I’m so thankful we have the tools to stay connected.

See you soon. Location to yet be determined.

-Derrick