Lane Scheideman

First of all, I want to thank all of you for finding my gallery, especially those of you who are regular visitors. I really enjoy the fact that people take time out of their days to look at my pictures, even those who get here via the random Google search.

This post is to make public my photography-related New Year’s Resolutions.

I spent New Year’s Day taking a close look at what I want to accomplish in the next 12 months in a number of areas including: my physical, emotional, and physical well-being and also what I want to do with my arts and hobbies.

I won’t bore or scare you with the first three, but will share with you my photography goals.

1. Take more photos — This is a no brainer. I’m not too specific in this goal because the following goals will enforce this one.
2. Take one trip, out of state, where photography is a major reason for the trip — There are several places I can visit where ex-Oregon friends now reside: Phoenix, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, and Calgary.
3. Take at least three trips, in the Pacific NW, where photography is a major reason for the trip — I’ll be taking a workshop that my friend Gary Hayes helps organize. I’d love to visit Crater Lake and Mt. St. Helens again. Plus there are my many regular trips to Cannon Beach (I’ll try not to count those as part of the three trips).
4. Revive and Reinvent my Intersections: Portland photography project — A couple years ago I came up with a pretty good photo exercise, but it never got its feet off the ground. So this year I will redefine the project and start working on it.
5. Continue archiving my old photos — These are slides, negatives and prints from my photography past, as well as my dad’s.
6. Join a stock photo agency — There are two parts to this goal:

• iStockPhoto — I need to do a bit more research into iStockPhoto to see if it is right for me, but I would like to give my photos a chance to work for me. This is something I’ll do in the next month or so.
• Getty Images — This will be a higher profile agency that will be tougher to get into. It is a fairly elite stock photo agency, but they just introduced a new program called their “Placement Fee Collection”. Basically, you send them ten of your best images and they determine whether you are good enough to be part of their “House” collection, which would be an amazing honor. If you are good, but not quite good enough for a House collection, they may offer you a chance to be part of the Placement Fee collection, where I would pay them to host my photos, in hopes that they get contracted out for big bucks.
  There is one big catch with joining Getty: They will not accept images taken with a Nikon D70 (my current digital SLR). So to accomplish this part of the goal I’ll have to pick up the Nikon D200. Good News? I would like to do this anyway. Bad News? I don’t have the $1300 right now. So I’ve added “Save $1300″ to my monetary goals for the year.