If you were to look back at all the posts written over the last few years by me and good buddy, Scott Bourne you’d find hundreds that relate to expanding your education and networking.  They’re two key topics you just can’t hide from if you’re headed down the road to being a professional photographer. If [...]

Last week good buddy, Michael Corsentino, was in Orlando visiting his mother.  We decided to get together and spend some time just hanging out. He drove over from Orlando.  Sheila, Michael and I had dinner together and then he and I proceeded to get into a marathon conversation about photography.

New photographers don’t realize how small [...]

Yesterday morning at 8:00 am I had my first Skype video call with Tomotaka in Kyoto. Thank God his English is better than my Japanese! We actually managed to converse for twenty minutes and when I hung up all I could do was smile the rest of the day!
Tomotaka is the son of Taka who [...]

Every year Summer School gets a little better thanks to the feedback in the survey we do a week or two after the program ends. After last year’s school we heard requests for more hands-on shooting, more marketing and business and several suggestions to make the program more centrally located. Well, we’ve managed to do [...]

Here’s a great example of why you need to attend every convention and workshop you can find: you meet new people!  At WPPI I had a chance to meet and talk with Jeremy Cowart. I’ve admired him for a long time, but our paths just never crossed.
This morning I got an email from Yasmin Tajik [...]

Lately I feel like I’m trapped in an old Jimmy Stewart movie and the hands of the clock are spinning.  Time is literally flying by and projects I wanted to be finished with already are barely started. Julieanne Kost, in regards to asking her to be involved in a project we were working on, once [...]

Back from WPPI last week brought to a close what I refer to as my 2012 Trade Show Season. It started with PMA @ CES then IUSA in New Orleans, PhotoPro Expo in Covington, KY and back to Las Vegas for GoingPro Bootcamp and WPPI.  For many of you there’s still another round or two with [...]

You’re either back from WPPI already or headed back today. A key part of any convention is networking, but if you procrastinate, before you know it, the relationships you just built will start to disappear.  I’ve written a lot about the care and feeding of your network and the time to add those new building [...]

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 [...]

This is an amazing industry and so much of every one’s success is based on networking.  Well, meet a relatively new friend who’s friendship just keeps growing all the time, Levi Sim.  I “met” Levi through PWSPI when it first started. Sadly, PWSPI didn’t survive in the current economy, but the friendship with Levi did.  He [...]