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A few of sites that we have created, maintained or that features our work include:

• For California's secret wine region chock full of world-class wines, go to the Amador Vintners site at www.amadorwine.com
• Tired of hearing just the environmental movement's doom and gloom narrow outlook of the world? Find out the rest of the story from both sides of envinronmental issues at www.RANGEmagazine.com
• Amador County is receiving national attention as a tourism destination. Find out at www.touramador.com
• At NAPP, I have a small portfolio of b&w photos
• Videos about Larry Angier (please scroll down the page)

Regarding equipment and film: we usually tell people we use our cameras regularly to capture images (hint: it's not the equipment but how you use it!;-). Good equipment helps (more reliable, less hassle), but anything will work, you just need to go out and shoot and learn everything you can about it!

We use Nikon cameras and lenses, Macintosh computers and Adobe software for most of what we shoot. We print exclusively using Ultrachrome pigments on our own Epson printers up to 3.5 feet x 10 feet.

When it comes to our digital imaging, there is no comparison. We use the best products for its superior usability and color management: Apple Macintosh PowerPC/Intel equipment. We've used them exclusively since 1984 and found they work best for us and that the hardware is highly reliable. We haven't had a virus infection since 1987. Others will differ and that is fine with us. You won't ask us how to do it and we can spend more time with our own projects;-). We use both color-calibrated and managed G5 and Intel Mac computers in the studio and Powerbooks and MacBook Pros for our field editing. Images are stored on CD and DVD and a bunch of high-capactiy hard drives and more hard drives.

We output to several printers from our small Epson 2200, still going strong in its second life to our largest Epson 9800 large-format printer exclusively using Epson's Ultrachrome and Ultrachrome K3 pigments. According to imaging experts, our prints will outlast us by decades, perhaps centuries.

Yes, you can get good results from the Windows World if you are willing to spend the time (checkout George Lepp), but our preference goes to Apple and their superior Unix-based OS and bullet-proof hardware. We would rather work with our equipment than work on it trying to get pieces running together..

Macs come ready to go for digital photography and include iPhoto, iVideo, and iTunes. They are the easiest media machines, bar none. It's the closest thing to no muss, no fuss digital photography.

Of course, we use the de jure standard of digital software, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

For captioning our digital photos in the studio and on the road we use a PhotoMechanic. Loads the images quickly and allows us to tag, edit, caption, and sort the photos before burning a DVD.

Since 1990 we've advised, photographed and lead workshop classes at Shooting The West in Winnemucca, Nevada, every march. Here's their link.

Video interviews about Larry Angier and produced by Tony Mournian, editor of Photographers Formulary include his background, digital file prep, and digital photography.

Other great photographers out there include:

• Jim Sugar, my coleague in photographic education and workshops
• Al Weber, my mentor and one of my first instructors from before I could drive. Al is the last of the Ansel Adams generation and is a photographer's photographer
• Doug Keister, master of photography of cemeteries, bungalows and vintage travel trailers, with about three dozen photo books in print
• Jessica Lifland a great documentary photographer and photographic educator
• Will Crockett a master of color, lighting, digital, and marketing, founder of the "Shoot Smarter" seminars
• Kim Komenich Pulizter-Prize winning documentary photographer formerly with the SF Examiner and Chronicle.

If you are a photo buyer, I urge you to learn about dealing with professional photographers and contemporary business practices. The key concept in the business of photography is "win-win". No low-ball. No buy-outs. No work-for-hire. Great info is available to you on-line:

• The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) General photography business practices and concepts and defending the rights of photographers in the United States and abroad.
• ASMP NorCal the Northern California chapter of ASMP based in San Francisco.
• Editorial Photographers (EP) Standing up for the rights of magazine and editorial shooters and educating the photographers and buyers alike.
• North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA) Its stated mission is to provide education, foster professional and ethical conduct, gather and disseminate information, and develop standards for all persons interested in the field of nature photography.
• Picture Agency Council of America (PACA) Representing stock photography agencies in the U.S.

Digital links I can recommend: For pro-level issues regarding equipment and technique:

• www.robgalbraith.com Digital equipment, compact flash, some technique; one of the web's most useful and knowledgeable sites
• www.digitaljournalist.org Digital journalist discussions by Dirk Halstead
• www.nikonlinks.com Good site for Nikon info with hundreds of links
• www.nikondigital.org A good site for Nikon and Canon pro digital camera usage discussion
• www.dpreview.com General digital camera review

See our photographs on display at these fine local businesses:

American Exchange Hotel & Bellotti's, Main Street, Sutter Creek
Sutter Creek Visitor's Center, Main Street

Add Art, Main Street, Jackson
Mother Lode Market, Main Street, Jackson

Taste Restaurant, Main Street, Plymouth
Amador Vintners & Amador Council of Tourism Vistor's Center, Highway 49, Plymouth