A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about turning Akron into a hub for photographic education. I’m ecstatic to have been given the thumbs up to make an exclusive announcement: Clay Blackmore, one of the finest wedding and portrait photographers in the country, is bringing his new program to the John S. Knight Center in Akron on October [...]
Every now and then I’ll be around a bunch of photographers and they’ll be looking at images of Joe Buissink’s, Jim Garner’s, Jerry G’s, Yervant’s or Bambi’s for example and somebody will always say, “Sure the images are great, look at where they are! I’ve got nothing that looks like the ocean where I live!”
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The Beatles said it first, “I get by with a little help from my friends!” But the truth is, getting through the last two weeks took a lot more than just a little help. My good buddy, Scott Bourne, just jumped in and drove the bus, helping me stay current with blogs, both new ones [...]
So often people have given me positive feedback about my comments on something they’ve shown me regarding their own business. I’ll see things they’ve completely missed, but think about it for just a second. Yeah, I’ve got a lot of experience in our industry, but what could be easier than being asked to “Monday morning [...]
I’m working with Scott Bourne on a project called GoingPro. Most of you have probably been to the website, www.GoingPro2010.com. Part of the project involves a book, published by Random House next summer. So the chapter I was working on yesterday was all about things you can do to refine your technical skills. I started writing about [...]
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 [...]
I’ve talked a lot about taking advantage of the first quarter’s “down time” quality to analyze what you could have done better last year. The quote I found from Steve Ballmer at Microsoft, seems a little ironic, considering the public’s attitude that Microsoft has often been out of touch. Regardless, it rings true for everyone in business today.
“We [...]
