How I love the Internet!   This is a perfect example of why you should have a couple of favorite blogs you read on a regular basis.  Yesterday I wrote about consistent quality and the stimulus for the blog was an album I had seen with completely inconsistent skin tones.  Every page had a “different” bride. 
Just a little [...]

Spending the weekend with Gary Blair at our house, we obviously talked a lot about photography and especially how much things have changed.  There were moments, when talking about the past,  I was sounding like my grandfather when he would say, “I used to walk three miles to school every morning!”  But let’s face it, there has [...]

I just spent the last couple days with good buddy and portrait photographer, Gary Blair, who came in for the weekend.  Gary and I have been friends since we met in ‘87 when his Dad, “Big Daddy” Blair, was a spokesperson for Hasselblad.  Oh, who am I kidding, if you knew “Big Daddy” he was a spokesperson [...]

Okay, so somebody help me out here…I got an indignant email from a person I didn’t “friend” the other day on Facebook. They were “disappointed” I didn’t allow them in my Facebook “family”.  I didn’t because they had no head shot; we had no friends in common and there was nothing that suggested they were a photographer.  [...]

The full registration site for each of the programs should be live next week, but here’s an update on what’s happening to finally bring some great programming to the Midwest.
1) The Hilton Akron/Fairlawn is the new location for all events.  It’s much more accessible, since it’s only a mile or so off route 77, making it a [...]

I got the funniest email from Gretchen McFarland one of our Summer School attendees.
Sooo… Please convey to your best buddy, Scott Bourne, that exactly 30 seconds after I posted his “Jump. and the net will appear” quote on my Facebook status ( to encourage a friend in need) – I fell and broke 5 bones [...]

For those of you who understand photography, know your exposures and never “chimp”,  reading the rest of this blog this morning is probably a waste of time.  However, for those of you who photograph with a no-big-deal-I’ll-fix-it-in-Photoshop mentality it’s time to wake up!
If you’re fixing it in Photoshop later, then you’re wasting valuable time you could [...]

Every now and then something happens to remind me just how special social media really is.  There’s no real point this morning, just a fun reminder to keep track of your friends. 
 I got a call from an old buddy yesterday, Mike LeBlanc.  We spent a lot of time together when we were both at Polaroid in [...]

Not sure what triggered this thought today, but here’s a phenomenon more unique to the photographic industry than most other career fields – people tend to help each other.  Over and over again I’m amazed at people who ask for help on a photographic or business challenge related to photography and find themselves delightfully buried in answers.
Don’t [...]

I’ll spare you the long story, but my bride of almost two months and I actually met in second grade.  She was assigned to show me the new school and dumped me 20 minutes later – hey, I was an obnoxious little geek and would have done the same thing!  LOL    We  went all through school together, [...]