Hi there, this is Tracey Clark, and I am so excited that you are considering Picture Winter.

What is Picture Winter? Well, it's actually the fifth class I've taught here at Big Picture Classes in this picture series that I'm doing which are 30-day email classes. We have a community at the Big Picture Classes site so you can participate in that, but your lessons every day, your prompts, will come in an email, which is fantastic and you can receive those at your whim and get those and work on the prompt throughout the day, and then you can pop into the classroom whenever you are ready to upload your photo or chit chat with people on the message board. It's a really great community and the prompts will help you see your daily life in a new light.

I'm really excited about Picture Winter in particular because it begins on January 1. This is really exciting because I feel like beginning a new year with 30 days of photography is a great way to start and a super way to commit to carving some time out for yourself and just to see the world differently and appreciate your everyday life. So, the fact that we're starting on January 1 makes it extra special.

The other thing that is super fun about Picture Winter is, I live in Southern California so we don't get much of a winter, obviously, and a lot of you will be knee deep in snow. What I've decided to do is to invite a few guest photographers to share a few prompts with us this month which I've never done before in any of the classes, so it's going to be really great and fun to get a new look and a new perspective from other people, so I'm eager about that. I'm just really grateful to have you along for this ride. It's going to be a great journey to start 2011, and I look forward to it. I'll be counting down the days and I hope to see you there. I think Picture Winter is going to be BIG! See you soon.