The dog days of summer are definitely upon us here in the Pacific Northwest and I’m about done with them; currently, it’s in the high 90s for the third time this summer. I know that’s standard-issue weather for a lot of you in the South and the Midwest, but one of the reasons I moved to Oregon was to escape the sticky weather of my youth.

Despite the weather, it’s been a nice month, with lots of company. My brother and his son came to visit for a week, and we had a lovely time taking him around the state (here’s a pic of them at Multnomah Falls, one of our must-see destinations in the Columbia Gorge; this week, a dear friend of my wife’s–from their high school and college days–has been visiting. They’ve also been doing lots of fun stuff.

We were moving the Photo One offices this week, and I didn’t have Internet access on Friday, but we were able to get a few tutorials up during the week, including two videos from Mike Rodriguez: Turn a Dull Shot into a Moody Masterpiece, and Mike’s take on Getting the Orton Effect. With everything going on, I didn’t have time to put together a cheat sheet for the videos, but we should be able to get them together in the next couple of weeks. (You can use our magazine article, The Orton Effect, as a cheat sheet for the latter video.

I also posted Wendy’s Attaching a Slide to A Scrapbooking Ribbon, which is a companion to her Making a Metal Slide tutorial from July. Check them out, and have a great weekend!

Rick