Weekly Update - November 23-30, 2005

We headed back to my parents' place for the holiday weekend...I don't get to see them much during the year. Had a good time, ate lots of good food...hope you all did the same.

In an effort to keep things interesting over the winter months, when we don't shoot much, I'm going to try hosting a Deal's Gap related photoshop contest every week. Totally inspired by this thread over on Cycleforums, each week I'll post the best work from the previous week, along with artist credit for each one, and I'll put up a few new candidates from our highlights of the year for you all to play with. I've kicked things off this week with a few shots from earlier in the year. Just save the image to your computer, open it with an image editor like Photoshop or even Microsoft "Paint" which comes bundled with all versions of Windows, and email them to me (killboy@killboy.com) or post a link to the hosted photo underneath the original. Good luck!

I'm going to take a moment here to say thanks to everyone who has supported us, told their friends about us, and spent their hard-earned cash buying our photos. We processed nearly 7000 orders this year, with practically no dissatisfied customers. It has been a crazy busy year for us, but we are taking steps to keep up with the demand and get orders out in a more timely manner.

I also gotta thank Ron and Nancy over at Tail of the Dragon. Without them, we simply would not be here, selling photos at the low price we do. They've helped us tremendously, and you customers are reaping the benefits of that relationship. If you have not checked out their product line lately, give their online store a look and send them some business if possible. They have some really cool new products and designs, and these folks do a lot of behind-the-scenes work to keep things motorcycle-friendly with the area politicians and government agencies. Your enjoyment of the area has more to do with them and many of the other area businesses than you may realize.