The City of Georgetown,Texas held it's annual Martin Luther King Parade and Celebration. The parade left from the historic court house in the center of Georgetown. The parade ended up at the Macedonia Baptist Church with a great celebration with prayers and music.
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I'm from Texas but grew up in New Mexico. It is always fun to turn to the Land of Enchantment.This year I drove through New Mexico to Sedona Arizona. I had only been there once passing through so this was a great opportunity to spend a few days. I took the Pink Jeep Tours to help me get around to places that I wouldn't know about. Oh and I stayed at the Summit a Hilton Resort. More on that later.The Pink Jeep Tour had to cancel one trip to Antelope Canyon but that was okay due to the heavy rain.
I did a sunset tour during the rain and a trip to the Grand Canyon National Park. The Hilton at the Summit was great. Walking out the door of my one bedroom suite had an incredible view of the Sedona red rocks.The Hilton Grand Vacation's are a great way to stay almost anywhere around the world for free using Hilton Points. After leaving Sedona it was about a 6 1/2 hour drive to Santa Fe, New Mexico were I stayed at the Santa Fe Motel & Inn. In Santa Fe I stumbled across a car show on the Plaza. That was fun to see just because I enjoy going to car shows where I live in Texas. I host the annual Georgetown Texas Photography Festival with my co-host The Williamson Museum in Georgetown,Texas. This year we held the photography festival March 19,2022 with over 700 in attendance. There were 11 Featured Photographers, Photography Classes, Photo Walks, portfolio reviews and Linda Nickell's "Happiness Hour" live.
Our Featured Photographers included Dawn Richardson, Robert McGee, Nick Austin, David Werner, Sherry McRae, Jennifer Leigh Warner, Jose Madrigal, Lin Zabojnik, Greg Daily, Jason Siver, and Tricia Zeigler. The Photography Class Instructors were, Todd White, Harrison Funk and Earl Nottingham. Photo walk leaders were Todd White, Rudy Ximenez and David Valdez. Linda Nickell's "Happiness Hour" speakers included: Alyce Bender, Valerie Hoffman, Jama Pantel, Karen Riley, Rob Doyle and Andrew Vaughan. We are already planning for next years Georgetown Texas Photography Festival March 18,2023. I had an opportunity to participate in the GTX Film Festival held Sept 2021 in Georgetown,Texas at the City Lights Theater. There were films submitted from around the world. I was fortunate enough to be a film reviewer prior to the release of the films. Doing photos for the GTX Instagram was fun. There were 2 of us taking photos. My partner in crime was Lisa Welch a Georgetown,Texas photographer.
Other World Computing (OWC) recently sent some of my photos into space on one of their hard drives on a Jeff Bezos rocket ship, the New Shepard. The images that were on the hard drive are in a previous post. So thankful to Setori Pond and OWC for including me and a few of my photos for this historic event.
Setorii of OWC has a great podcast called Leaders and Game Changers. I was fortunate enough to be a guest on her show. Thanks for including me Setorii
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-its-like-to-photograph-a-president-with-david-valdez/id1535728763?i=1000496425483 Other World Computing (OWC) selected some of my photos for a space launch October 13,2020 on the New Shepard Mission NS-13. The photos were in an OWC external hard drive just like the one I use in my daily photography work. Through out the New Shepard Flight NASA determined how well the technology worked as the rocket flew into space and then landed gently back down on Earth. Below are some photos of the space flight taken from screen shots and a selection of my photos that went into space. A few of the photos I took were from my hometown of Georgetown,Texas and of course a selfie of me with Buzz Light Year.
Thanks to Setorii Pond for making this happen. The White House Historical Association publish the White House History Quarterly. Issue number 58 is titled "Photographing the White House. They featured the Presidential Photographers. I was included since I was the personal photographer for President George H. W. Bush. I had an opportunity to do a podcast about my photography career with OWC. They are known for innovative DIY solutions for computer memory upgrades based out of Woodstock, IL Other World Computing is an American computer hardware company and online store for Mac upgrades and accessories. Other World Computing
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