September, 2009, BATW Event: Case Studies:  How (and Why) I Built my Website And What It’s Done for Me Lately Prospective members and members’ guests welcome. A panel of several BATW members, from web novices to old hands, talking briefly about their websites. Panelists are Edward Hasbrouck,...

San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts by moonlight (all photos by Morton Beebe) Photo Journalism for Travel Writers at Pier 39 in San Francisco August 8 (second Saturday) at 10 a.m. Coordinators are Dee Rogers and Beth Zare Please note: We are scheduling this month’s BATW meeting on the second...

September, 2009, BATW Event: Case Studies:  How (and Why) I Built my Website And What It’s Done for Me Lately Prospective members and members’ guests welcome. A panel of several BATW members, from web novices to old hands, talking briefly about their websites. Panelists are Edward Hasbrouck,...

Just back from an Arctic expedition, John and I are still picking polar bear fur off our clothing. (Read more about our trip elsewhere in this ezine.) Your entries are due this month for the BATW Best Writing and Photography Awards 2010 as well as Planet Earth Awards. Exciting upcoming BATW events: We...

The BATW Board of Directors and all members welcome our new members: New Active Member Linda Castrone and New Associate Member Kerrie Walters of the Grants Pass Visitors & Convention Bureau We look forward to seeing you at future meetings. [Editor's note: Members can find contact information for...

San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts by moonlight (all photos by Morton Beebe) Photo Journalism for Travel Writers at Pier 39 in San Francisco August 8 (second Saturday) at 10 a.m. Coordinators are Dee Rogers and Beth Zare Please note: We are scheduling this month’s BATW meeting on the second...

Oceano Hotel Lobby (photos courtesy of Oceano Hotel) The new Oceano Hotel and Spa in Half Moon Bay — just 30 minutes from San Francisco — hosted BATW’s July 18 meeting. From the windows in the lovely Monterrey room where we met, we could see the boats at Pillar Point Harbor just across...

This is a little obscure, but it could be very important information for the really serious photographers in BATW: “Microsoft has warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 of an issue that can lead to digital pictures becoming corrupted when handled with the default image viewers available as components...

Antoinette May has got to be the most prolific writer in BATW and among writers in the country. The petite redhead has written biographies, guidebooks, history books, travel books, articles on everything from travel to ghosts. She writes the Minerva Horoscope column for Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle,...

Congratulations to Lee Foster, who has been very busy lately.  His new book The Photographer’s Guide to San Francisco: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them has been released by Countryman Press ($14.95, ISBN 978-0-88150-814-7).  The book shows how a photographer or visual adventurer...