It’s Sunday morning and in a couple of hours we’re going to launch the first ever GoingPro Bootcamp. I’ve already met a few of the attendees and love the enthusiasm, optimism and even their understandable frustration. These are people who are passionate about starting a new business and they just haven’t had a resource to [...]
It’s a light thought this morning on a heavy subject. When I’m in the heat of battle over an issue with anybody over anything, passion takes over. I get caught making statements that are emotional and less than relevant to whatever the issue is I’m arguing about in the first place. I’ll read whatever it [...]
In early July last year I wrote my first blog. I had no plan, just wanted to see if I could do one every day and make some kind of contribution to an industry I love deeply. Well, here I am over a 1000 pages of blogs, over a 1000 comments and I’ve only missed [...]
Everyone knows how much I enjoy Sunday mornings, so it’s not a very “heavy” post this morning, but it’s a couple of terrific quotes to think about…
We’re all fighting the same challenges with the economy. Everyone is trying to figure out what the next move should be in so many different areas, marketing, new products, [...]
A year and a half ago I made the decision to move back to Ohio and in the process of moving to Akron, noticed a new friend on Facebook was from the area. I sent him a one-liner like, “What’s new in Akron?” The knucklehead who answered me back was photographer, Brian Palmer.
My first week or two [...]
With football season now underway the words offense and defense jump into our vocabulary at least once a week if not more. Well, I can’t help but think of the issues around “offense and defense” when it comes to professional photography and your business. Personally, I’d always rather play offense, but I’m amazed at the [...]
Somebody recently described me as one of the luckiest guys in photography, because of the incredible career I continue to have. In all honesty though, while I’m very grateful and do feel really lucky as opposed to unlucky, luck hasn’t always had a lot to do with it.
The truth is, I’ve spent my entire career totalled enamored [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
There are few things more fun than a reunion of old friends and last night was no exception. Riverside High School’s annual get together, which could only happen in a small town like Painesville, Ohio. A bigger city would probably have more classmates heading to other areas of the country, but the nice thing about a little town [...]
