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“We tweet, we text, we e-mail.  Everybody’s chatting, but is anybody listening?  Why America needs to revive the vanishing art of conversation.  We need to talk.”
It was the headline of a story by David Dudley in the AARP Magazine this month and yes, I admit to reading AARP and damn proud of being old enough [...]

This blog has become a labor of love since it started in July.  I’ve tried to stay with topics relevant to today’s challenges.  I’ve also had some amazing posts from some of the industry’s finest photographers and I’ve learned a little something new with every guest blog.  
Now I need a little help from you – I’m [...]

This week has been pretty incredible…it started with the electricity in the air at DWF’s convention.  Lots of energy, optimism, friendships and good solid education and finished with Imaging USA – for the first time that I can remember, an outstanding show, packed with people, old friends and again the energy of people coming together [...]

We’re all part of an amazing industry and there are people who come into our lives and when you think about them, you can’t remember a time when they weren’t around.  It doesn’t matter how long you’ve actually known them.  Well, meet Elena Hernandez from Dallas.  She’s an artist and a great photographer, but more [...]

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Yesterday’s post from Jay Lawrence Goldman brought out a familiar theme, diversity.  
A few months back Calvin Hayes sent me some images he captured of sushi for a client who owned a restaurant.  Eddie Tapp had a remarkable series of architectural images in one of the trade magazines a short time ago.  Kay Eskridge did a [...]

I was pleasantly surprised last week to catch the response to a couple of fun quotations I tweeted, each relating to Success and Failure.
David Brinkley:  “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him!”
Bill Cosby: “I don’t know the key to success, but the key [...]

Okay, so my title might not be original, but you’ve only got a day left to make the decision to jump on the bandwagon with Greg Schrader for his Chicago workshop.  Even if you knew everything there is to know about photography, there’s no such thing as too many images for your portfolio, website or blog.   Here’s an opportunity [...]

I got another update from Glen Clark last night that’s worth sharing… 
This week I am attending both the PhotoPublishing Summit and the Digital Imaging Conference in Burlingame, California.   For those of you who may not be familiar with InfoTrend’s Digital Imaging Conference, it runs back-to-back with their PhotoPublishing Summit “and is defined as “The Premier Meeting [...]

The greatest thing about living in California was being able to grill every day – because it’s nice every day!  Well, here I am in Ohio and my neighbors are all focused on the summer being over.  They’re talking about putting their grill away,  tuning up the snow blower, putting the porch furniture in storage, getting [...]