News about PhotoCycle. Our show is in the works and our first pilot should be up in about a month. Rocky and I were working on editing it yesterday, I have to tell you it’s really cool: We’re going to show you Ansel’s darkroom with footage we just shot, but the really cool part is we have unreleased footage of Ansel working in this same darkroom (thanks to Michael and Matt Adams who generously made this available to us.)

This embodies our vision of PhotoCycle: To take you close to the masters of photography, for inspiration and to get their know-how, connecting this directly with the digital world, which of course is built on the analog world of photography.

For example, Ansel made a point of mentioning the key to the photographic process is visualization, he brought this up over and over in his books the Basic Photo Series. But imagine hearing from him directly what he meant by the process of visualization? That’s where we’re taking you on PhotoCycle.

Another example is with Edward Weston (he and Ansel helped pave the way for photography to be considered a true art form—something we can now take for granted and enjoy the freedom of. Edward made the definitive statement about composition: “Composition is the strongest way of seeing.” Though we have no recording of him talking about this, I will ask his grandson Kim to elaborate on it.

We’ll also be taking you on classic PhotoWalks to accessible but photo rich locations, Thomas Hawk will be joining us as he and Robert Scoble did some of the original PhotoWalks which are still available. You can join us on these too, in person or on our show: watch, follow along and learn—or show us, as the case may be.

We’ll be bringing you weekly tips and tricks, how to get inside your equipment do those neat things.

We’ll also be covering the business side of photography, how successful photographers have made a go of it.

We’ll be tailoring this show to you and your interests, so leave your comments, send me your emails and come along when we go on a PhotoWalk.

I’m really passionate about this show and very happy to be working on this with Robert and Rocky and hope to hear from you and see your work along the way.