Free Print

I had a very unusual event happen to me last month. I’ve been meaning to blog about it, but haven’t until now. No good reason for it, just the general overhead of life in general getting in the way

Nat Coalson is a great photographer, based in Colorado, who shoots a lot of travel and nature photography. He is also quite good with lightroom. In fact, he runs quite a few seminars on lightroom and digital workflow. He’s even written a book on it, which I’ll discuss in a bit.

So, he and I are friends on Facebook and he recently started a Facebook fan page. I eventually bumped into and hit the magic “like” button. A couple of days later, I can an email from Nat asking if I had “liked” his fan page around a certain time. Man, I think, I must be the only person who can get themselves in trouble by “like”ing a page. I admitted I did and he informed me that I was the 500th person so Like his fan page and he wanted to send me a print.

Well, how cool is that. I have given away and sold prints myself,  even bought some, but I have never been given one.

So, I surfed over to his website and spent a fairly long period of time looking through his prints to decide on the one I liked. After picking one and letting Nat know, He printed off a 16×24 print and mailed it to me.  This was one well-packaged print that was immune to the best efforts of both the Canadian and US postal services to do it some damage.

I’m now in the process of getting it framed and up on the wall. Thanks Nat.

Interestingly, it showed me how personal the giving of a print is to the recipient.  The value of this print to me is not the dollar value of the print, but the tie and effort Nat put in to create it and then to print it just for me. It showed me something I have not really thought about, which is the value perceived in being given a print.

You can find Nat Coalson’s FB page here.

His main website is located here.

This is the print I selected, it’s of Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. I’ve been lots and lots of places, but not yet to New Zealand, so it’s a bit of a motivator for me.

If you want to see the rest of his New Zealand Pictures, just click on the image. (Nat, I hope you don’t mind me putting a tiny thumbnail here of the image).

Now I mentioned earlier that Nat Coalson is also pretty good with Lightroom. In fact, he has written an excellent book on Lightroom and Lightroom workflow. I purchased it and I really like it’s approach to Lightroom, which lots of ideas for improving your workflow and getting more efficient with your post-production work.

Here is the cover:

You can find it on Amazon here or by clicking the image.