At most workshops or tours you get a chance to share a few of your images, usually in a critique session and usually only about five or six images. Usually you'd like to be able to share a whole lot more.
What we'd like to do for this tour is to take at least one evening and have everyone share some of their favorite images, or images from a favorite trip, or any other theme you'd like, in the form of a digital slide show. We'll get together in our hotel, perhaps sample some of the "fruits" of our winery visits, and enjoy each other's company as well as each other's photography.

We'll have a digital projector, a laptop (Windows 7), and a pair of speakers for these presentations. Bring your shows on a cd, dvd, or jump drive. Or you can plug your own laptop into the projector. Try to keep your show to no more than five to seven minutes long.

If you don't want to create a slide show but still want to share images, that's fine too. Just put them all into one folder, or on one disk, and you can simply narrate to your images.

Some suggestions for making your slide show even better:

-Keep your show to around five to seven minutes.
-If you have multiple pictures of the same subject, choose your very best one or two.
-Try not to mix horizontal/vertical/horizontal too many times. Show a bunch of horizontals then, maybe at a natural break in the music, switch to verticals and then back to horizontals at another break and so on.

If you're bringing a program that was made on a Mac, either bring your computer or create a dvd that will work in a Windows machine.

Pictures to EXE  (very easy to use and creates beautiful shows--this is the one I use-Windows only)

ProShow Gold   (perhaps the most popular program-Windows only)

Photoshop or Lightroom can also create slide shows that are saved as PDF files.

Mac users have iPhoto they can use