Normally I don’t use my blog to wish good friends “Happy Birthday”, but this one is kind of special. In February Scott Bourne and I spent a day with Michele at GoingPro Bootcamp and her message was amazing. She started out her part of the program sharing images from her first wedding and by everyone’s [...]

I tried to come up with some incredible title for today’s post, but in all honesty, just the name Barbara Bordnick covers it all. She’s one of the finest photographers in the world and I’m so proud to consider her a good friend! We met years ago when I was at Hasselblad and here’s a [...]

Yesterday I ran the following post as a Sunday Morning Reflection. Since Sunday is such a slow blog post day and I didn’t have access to some of the images I wanted to run with the post, I decided to run it this morning and include three of Bob Coates’ images along with it.
I [...]

Since starting this blog two years ago, I’ve written a lot about education. I’ve talked about establishing a morning routine of checking out some great blogs that puts a minimum of half an hour every morning right up there with brushing your teeth! And yes, it really is that important and that basic.  It’s just as [...]

It’s coming up on two years since I launched this blog and during that time there have been a number of posts by me as well as guests, talking about ways to give back. Some ideas have been very local, others national, but each has represented a big dream. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing [...]

Over the past few weeks we’ve been sharing a lot about different techniques to help you expand your skill set. Over at GoingPro there are a couple of posts coming up this week about “diversity” in your skill set. In keeping with that same theme, here’s one that’s absolutely a homerun for you to learn, [...]

Yesterday’s blog brought out some interesting comments, one of them in an email from PA photographer, Joe Maher. I first met Joe in August 2009 when he came to Skip’s Summer School.  The other night he made the drive to come to Akron to Doug Gordon’s program and I’m hoping I’ll see him again at [...]

A few days ago, my GoingPro partner, Scott Bourne, answered a PhotoFocus reader’s question about a definition of ”art” in photography.  I’ve tried to define it myself for years and never been successful.  The problem is,  what we each consider art is completely different.  
 
In 1994, as president of Hasselblad, I was a co-founder of a project called Focus [...]

Last year Nicole Wolf did a couple of guest blogs that were tremendous.  She was willing to do another, but not until I read what she sent did I realize the importance of her journey.  This is a relatively long blog, technically too long for the normal blog post, but there’s no way I wanted [...]

Last week I wrote about losing a good buddy, Mike Bowen.  In his eulogy of Mike, the priest at the funeral told a story that simply made me smile.  Mike was active in the church and he talked about Mike and his love for photography.
“What’s your favorite place?” Mike once asked him.  The priest being [...]