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Your subtitle goes right here.Why Being a Photographer is Like Being a Jazz Musician
I love jazz. I always have. I can remember the first recording of jazz my dad played on our brand new stereo. It was a recording of Benny Goodman's Quartet with Buddy Rich on drums. I thought it was fascinating and glorious music. I didn't tell a soul that I liked it....
Featured Photographs from Project 52: Part One
Project 52. 52 weeks of assignments and critiques for those wanting to go pro, or be more professional in their approach to photography. The site is Project52.org and there is a ton of stuff there already. Audio crits with images to follow along with, information on...
A “GPS” For Our Photography… Yeah, That’d Be Nice
I have been quite busy this past two weeks. Many, many distractions taking me away from the work - and lots of work to be taken away from. It has produced a quagmire of challenges. I rarely miss a deadline, and I work very hard for my clients. Even the ones I don't...
Deciding What “ART” Is, Or Is Not, Can Be Quite Instructive
A Little Rant today. "I saw Cady Harran wearing army pants and flip-flops, so I bought army pants and flip-flops" -- Mean Girls. Recently at APE a post entitled "Why We Love Bad Photography" made me pause and consider what that meant to me. It ended up consuming quite...
Setting Goals: Is It Important for Photographers?
Yeah, we heard it all through our early schooling; "Set you goal to achieve..." And there are countless gurus out there teaching seminars and workshops and holding 'retreats' on the "Art of Decisive Goal Planning and the Strategic Paradigm of Unilateral Ubiquity..."...
The Sassimi Collection: The Ins and Outs of Shooting a Catalog
I recently completed a job for Tera at Sassimi, a boutique fashion designer in Seattle. And while she is small for now, she wants to grow her business. I think she will do well. Oh, and you can visit her site here at Sassimi.com. (For those looking for Project 52,...

