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Your subtitle goes right here.The “Business” of Photography: Have I Lost Perspective, Or Simply Disconnected?
OK... Snarky Rant follows: You have been warned. So there's this photographer on Google +, Colby Brown, and he is writing a book about Google + and photographers. He decided to run a contest or something like a contest, to get some photographers who are actively...
Designing The Image You Want (a Chapter from My Book, Lighting Essentials)
Today I present an excerpt from my book, "Lighting Essentials: A Subject-Centric Approach for Photographers" now available from Amazon and fine book retailers all over the world! Whew! It is really interesting that yesterday I got a knock on the door and was handed...
Thanks is for Giving, and I Need To Do Some Givin’
It is Thanksgiving week in the US. It is a day that was set aside to give thanks for all that we have and take a moment to reflect on our year. It is also a time for being gluttonous, preparing for the biggest shopping day in the year and when family who may not speak...
What Happens When You Do Everything Right, And It Still Doesn’t Work?
There was a very interesting post over at Kirk Tuck's blog this week. It had to do with only being as good as the last shot, and how some great photographers are watching their careers slow precipitously, even while still being recognized as top level photographers....
Fear and Loathing in Photoville
Last week, Zack Arias received an email from someone excoriating him for ruining the photography business, teaching "n00b's" misleading information, fouling the water, defiling the tenants of Mordor, and general misbehaving. Or something. You should read it here, and...
Question and Answer Friday at Lighting Essentials
I was wondering aloud on twitter last night and asked if anyone had any questions they wanted answered... four tweets later we had these. One I believe I answered by tweets, but these three were so strong that they needed more than the 144 character response. Here...

