One of the reasons Scott Bourne and I are such good friends is the way we both think about the industry, especially the challenges photographers deal with outside the obvious of the economy and changing technology. Through GoingPro we’ve talked with thousands of photographers and the common denominator isn’t always the fact that they’re new and just [...]

Yesterday I was making some changes in my presentation for next weekend’s PhotoPro Expo show and I started to feel just plain rushed. For a minute or two I had sort of an out of body experience, feeling like I was trapped in an old Jimmy Stewart movie and to pass the time they just [...]

WTF stands for “What the Flash” and a special guest post thanks to good buddy, Bob Davis. I’m really having fun sharing this guest post this morning, because it’s completely different from anything I’ve ever run on the blog. This couldn’t be more “how2″ and I love the way Bob put it together. 
I first met [...]

Okay gang, this is short and sweet and I’m hoping, after you read this, you’ll click and vote immediately.
I’ve talked a lot about various charities in our industry over the last few years. One of them, near and dear to my heart, is Cameras for Kids Foundation, started by fine art photographer, Betsey Chesler.  Betsey, starting [...]

I originally wrote this post a short time back for GoingPro, but here’s why I’d like to share it with you here today. 
Yesterday I had a great conversation with a photographer who’s about to go full time. Her work is terrific, her website, while it needs a little fine-tuning is all in place and [...]

I recently saw an email blast from my buddy, George Varanakis at Rangefinder/WPPI. He listed the top ten reasons not to miss WPPI. Personally, I’d drop a few and add a few, one of them being your ability to interact with vendor after vendor to help strengthen your business. I’d also add, one trip to Vegas gets you exposed [...]

Good buddy, Scott Bourne, ran this a little while back on his blog, but it makes such a good point about storytelling and that in turn ties into print competition. Storytelling is more important today than ever, especially with so many of you starting to shoot video and mixed-media. Photographers have always been the ultimate storytellers, but like everything in the [...]

Every day there are things that happen that have become normal events, but there aren’t any words out there to describe them.

I was on the phone one morning talking with the Queen of Lighting, Bobbi Lane. About three minutes into the call we got disconnected. It was instinct, since I originated the call, to just call her [...]

We set the stage with yesterday’s post for some great background on how David Ziser has built his pricing platform and worked on one of the biggest challenges for photographers. Even the seasoned pros often forget how much needs to go into their pricing philosophy.
You should be following David’s posts at Digital Pro Talk. I [...]

It’s one of David Ziser’s best posts and also a very long read. I’ve broken it up into two parts, because it’s such an important topic, establishing your pricing.  
It’s that time of year when two key events start to happen. First, you’re going to be doing your taxes and for most of you it’ll be the first time you [...]