Mark Roberts is a photographer, writer and multimedia developer in Pittsburgh, PA.

It's that time of year again: Sign-up for the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekend begins on April 1st. The event has sold out within 24 hours for the past several years. The event itself takes place May 29-31, 2009 and the price is still just $115.00, a tremendous bargain for a photography workshop of this scope and quality. It will be interesting to see if it takes longer to sell out this year during these recessionary times, or if bargain hunters cutting back from more expensive photography workshops make it fill up more quickly.

Computer backgrounds for download: 15 images from my Grandfather Mountain project. Sized at 800 x 1280 pixels, for use as background images on widescreen computer monitors.

Vintage Motorcycles at the Packard Museum: Not far from Youngstown State University, where I teach, is the town of Warren, the former home of a factory that made Packard automobiles. It's now the site of the National Packard Museum, where they always have Packards on display and often feature special exhibits like the one of vintage motorcycles I photographed. See the photos here.

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