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Lighting Essentials Appreciation Weekend: January 28/29 2012: Workshops/BBQ/Fun
I have wanted to do this for a long time, and now that I am changing stuff up, it seems like a great time to hold our Lighting Essentials Appreciation Weekend. What it is: A weekend for us to have fun, make photographs, meet old friends and make new ones. There will...
October’s Gone, I Am Changing It Up, and Are You Up For a Visit From Me?
This is the last weekend of October. Only two months left till the new year, and hopefully some new directions. Seems like I always think of January, June, and September as transitional months. Maybe from all those years in school... I dunno. But change is in the air,...
“The Photographer’s Path” – A New Program from Selina Maitreya
Selina Maitreya's new course is something that is as unique as it gets. It is fresh, fun, exciting and with such a personal twist to the usual consultants approach, that you will be quite amazed. I have been working with the first month, and just received the second...
Why Simply Being “Better” Won’t Get You Assignments
There is a reason why the above was not chosen as a worldwide statement meant to inspire us to try a different method of computing... ya know. As photographers, we see this sort of thing all the time. "To get more work, become better than your competition". Really?...
It’s Nice to have Talented Friends (3 Photographers You Should Know)
It has been a long, hot summer here in the desert. Takes its toll on us sometimes. Creativity can be a little stifled when it is 120 degrees in the shade... heh. And yeah, I do have a studio to shoot in, but like that old adage about being careful what you wish for,...
Assignment Photography: a Strategy for Bidding the Gig
The phone rings a little before lunch. You answer it and a voice on the other end says, "How are you. You showed your book here at the agency a few weeks ago, and we have a job we would like you to bid on. We will email over the particulars if you are interested." The...
What Changed? What Remains?
I am very sad that my friend Kirk Tuck closed the door on his wonderful blog The Visual Science Lab. I sent a hearfelt note urging him to reconsider, but he has very strong and equally heartfelt reasons why he felt it was time to let it go. And I know that feeling. I...
Environmental Portraits: Be Ready for Anything, Use Only What You Need
I am working with a sculptor on some creating collateral and website materials. She didn't have any good images of her working, so we put together a shoot schedule that brought me to her studio in Paradise Valley. I love going on location to shoot portraits and I pack...
“… To See What The World Looks Like as a Photograph.” Works For Me
Garry Winogrand had a wonderful and unique way of thinking about photography. He was asked once why he seemed to photograph everything, seemingly without regard as to what he was photographing. His response:"I photograph to see what the world looks like in...
Why I Teach: A Personal Perspective
(NOTE: I would like to thank those students and alums who helped me become one of the top workshop teachers on Photo District News, Reader's Poll for September, 2011.) I was recently asked to discuss what I liked about teaching photography, and why I thought it was...
On Balance: Challenging the Nature of Gravity
There has been one strong thought in the back of my mind lately. It sort of hangs there like a candle that is almost ready to die, but keeps the flame going for another few seconds. Then it flickers nearly to extinction - and lights up again with the slight change of...
Green Tea, Rice Balls and Ancient Asian Cities
Photograph of sunrise in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. God I love iced green tea. Especially when it is really hot outside. And even more when I am outside with the extremely hot outside. The soft, gentle flavors and the coolness of the ice help with the - at times brutal -...