I’m in Nashville for the DWF convention and IUSA.  My day is starting with breakfast with friends, followed by walking the trade show and finishing with a presentation on marketing I’m doing for DWF.  What I can’t describe right now is the anticipation of catching up to old friends and finally meeting so many people [...]

Years ago, Tony Corbell used to remind everybody who attended his programs to save the last frame “on the roll” and just shoot completely different from everything else they’d done.   Take the time to experiment.   Well, on a winter Saturday like today, during what is most photographer’s down time, how about thinking about mixing up [...]

These past few days there’s been a lot of great conversations about being effective at Bridal Fairs.  The ideas from some pretty great marketing minds in photography  would work for any trade show and that includes vendors looking for themes to create a little excitement. 
 
I’ve always been surprised and find it a little sad [...]

The results are in!  Although I rarely shoot film myself anymore, my roots, like so many photographers out there today, are in film.  I love the richness of virtually anything Fujifilm makes and I keep finding more and more photographers refusing to give up film.  I’ve even run into a few who have gone back to [...]

The feedback on yesterday’s blog with ideas on how to make your presence at a Bridal Show was pretty remarkable.  Here are several different scenarios from Chris Fawkes, Lori Nordstrom, Bambi Cantrell and Kathleen Chuparkoff-Hawkins.  You may have seen a couple of these on Facebook already, but that doesn’t change the importance of what they’re saying.  All four photographers have some [...]

Tis the season for Bridal Fairs and I have to thank Jerry Rizzo, who started a string on Facebook, asking for thoughts on what makes you effective at a Bridal Show.  The more I thought about the answer, the more it applied to virtually any show.  So, here are some ideas:
1) Booth Design:   I wrote a [...]

In the last year, if social media hasn’t become an even bigger part of your life, then there’s something wrong.  It’s no longer about just having great marketing skills or a good website, it’s about your network and the people who come in and out of your life every day, people who share the passion.
For [...]

“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do.  That’s what it’s all about.”
It’s a great quote, but when you realize who said the words they border on being meaningless.  In [...]

Last night we were hit with a good old winter storm and I’m so amazed that’s everyone acted surprised.  Winter, just like the holidays, comes pretty much at the same time every year, yet we always manage to miss the “heads-up”.  Even the weather man on the news seemed concerned over the winter storm warning [...]