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Your subtitle goes right here.A Strategy for Going Pro as a Commercial Photographer: Part Two – Preparation
This part two of a series on Going Pro from my perspective, experience and research. (Part One here) This one we call "preparation" because before we can launch into strategical and implementation, we must be prepared. Just as a surgeon prepares for his craft with...
Potpourri Friday: Some new and some old – but all about Photography
From the series: Girls looking off camera at stuff." Well, it is Good Friday, and this weekend will be a blur. But I wanted to get some thoughts down before I hit the schedule for the upcoming Project 52 and workshops. First from the web: Some really good reads: From...
Need Inspiration: Try “Immersion”
Have you ever needed some inspiration? Maybe the batteries were a little low and the doldrums of creative deadlock begin to swirl around your camera. Maybe you had to do something really creative and simply needed to see some stuff to “get the juices going.” And then...
What Do You See When You Look at a Photograph?
What do you see when you look at a photograph? Simple question. How you answer it may reveal what you find important in imagery. I was once in a gallery at a large Arizona University. We were looking at a show of a photographer who had just completed his Master’s...
Some thoughts on Photography as I wait for a plane in Omaha
I am in a hotel in Omaha as I write this. Kind of a jumble of ideas and notes I wrote while thinking about my place in the world. I know what you are thinking… right now my place in the world is Omaha. Right, but I was really thinking a bit more metaphysically, so...
A Strategy for Going Pro as a Commercial Photographer: Part One: Discovery
It is one of the paradoxes of our business that one cannot get assignments until one has done assignments. “How do I get assignments if I don’t have any work to show the clients” is an often-heard complaint. And it is a complaint not without merit. It is tough to get...

