Earlier in the week I started profiling this year’s Summer School instructors.  What started out as putting them up, three at a time, has really become a labor of love.   Three at a time was just too much information.   However, more important than Summer School, is the fact that these people are some of the movers [...]

In keeping with a common theme this week, I’m having some fun with quick profiles of this year’s Skip’s Summer School instructors.   In alphabetical order here comes Tony Corbell.  Whether you can join us or not, make it a point to follow these industry icons – they’ve all got something to say, something to teach and something everybody [...]

 
I just heard from the crew at Pictage there are only five seats left for the launch of Pictage U next week in San Diego.  If you’re in the area it’s definitely worth checking out!

Yesterday on Twitter we announced a special drawing for anybody who tweets about next week’s upcoming PDN Virtual Event.  There will be a drawing for a new Canon EOS 7D camera body at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, May 25.   PDN’s Virtual Expo is going to be a sweet event with 10 FREE webinars over the [...]

For those of you just “tuning in” this week – I’m profiling all fifteen instructors for this year’s Skip’s Summer School because it doesn’t matter whether you’re able to attend or not.  These photographers are leaders in our industry and you should be following each of them on Twitter, their blogs, websites and Facebook.  Each one is making [...]

Fortunately I can talk about icons alphabetically, because in all honesty, all fifteen instructors at Summer School this year are so strong, I have no idea where I’d start!  As I said yesterday…
Whether you’re headed to Skip’s Summer School or not, this year’s instructors are some of the very best in the industry.  If you can [...]

Whether you’re headed to Skip’s Summer School or not, this year’s instructors are some of the very best in the industry.  If you can join us in August, terrific, but if you can’t, you really should follow each of these fifteen photographic icons on Twitter, their blogs, websites and Facebook.  Each one is making a contribution to our industry [...]

Next to my computer is the new “Super Yellow Pages” book that just came on Friday.  Underneath it, already in the trash is another copy.  The book can’t be cheap to print and yellow pages ads certainly aren’t free, but when was the last time you went to the phone book to find something?   How [...]

Nothing particularly earth-shaking this morning, just thinking about what to write and looking at the wall behind my desk.   It’s covered with twelve framed photographs, each one having some special meaning. 
The prints on my wall range from a photograph of Virginia Adams (Ansel’s widow) handing me the keys to his 1977 Cadillac framed with his [...]

I’ve quoted a few of the Walk the Talk books over the last few months.  What I enjoy about them is their ability to inspire in a few minutes as opposed to several hours of reading.  There are some times when you just need a burger and fries from Five Guys rather than a leisurely [...]