I’m not sure if this morning’s blog is dedicated to those who went to WPPI or those who didn’t, but here a few ideas following the convention.
For those who are just getting home from WPPI…you just spent the last week having every nerve-ending tweaked! Your NN, (Network Nerve) has been totally over-stimulated with all the [...]
Conventions like this past week bring out hundreds of requests to be a speaker. Sadly, many photographers, all with good intentions, think they have earned the right to speak at a national convention, even with virtually no experience. That’s not to say they don’t have good intentions, might not be a good speaker or even relevant, [...]
Yesterday’s blog, thanks to Nicole Wolf, really seems to have charged up a lot of people into thinking a little differently about their work. Even on the marketing and editorial side, I found myself thinking about those projects that I’d love to be doing, but put aside because I got busy with things that seemed to [...]
Social Media is more than just a way to stay connected or communicate. For me it’s become the ultimate doorbell when it comes to knocking on the doors of photographers who I’ve never met and who are inspirational. I’m not sure how the friendship with Nicole Wolf even started, but I wound up on her site [...]
After all these years in the photographic industry I’ve got an amazing collection of prints. One my favorties is Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl. It’s an amazing image and long before I met Steve, I always thought of it as one of the most incredible portraits ever captured.
If you know Steve or have heard him speak, [...]
Having fun with yesterday’s blog and thinking about how timid people are when it comes to approaching their icons , got me thinking about the qualities that make the “legends” we respect the most. One key ingredient of so many past icons was longevity. Don Blair, Monte Zucker, Avedon, Karsh, Scavullo, Penn – all iconic figures and [...]
We’re all in the heat of trade show and convention season and it’s sort of a “which came first, the chicken or the egg” scenario. Is it prime time for conventions because it really is the slowest part of the season or has it become the slow time because everyone is off attending trade shows and [...]
I know it’s going to seem like a series of infommercials, but that’s the kind of morning it is – so here are a few cool reminders to think about.
1) Registration for Skip’s Summer School will hopefully open the end of this week. Things kick off on Sunday afternoon, August 8 at 3:30 with a sneak [...]
Years ago we used to have Denis Reggie speaking in the Hasselblad booth. After each presentation there would always be at least one photographer who would come up and ask us to “spec out” every piece of gear Denis used. A year later, this same photographer would come back disappointed that none of his images [...]
I’m always amazed at the comments that come out of what I think is sometimes a non-controversial blog, this one on the importance of quality from yesterday. Well, in keeping with the same theme and a product of quality – at the risk of sounding like an infomercial, I’m nuts about Jill-e bags. Then again, [...]
