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 

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.