The year is 1987 and I’ve just taken over as president of Hasselblad USA after being with Polaroid for over 17 years.  Hasselblad was just in the process of kicking off a workshop series with a young commercial photographer I’d never heard of, Dean Collins. I had spent virtually all of my Polaroid career, at [...]

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 [...]

 I found a great quote from Andy Warhol that got me thinking…
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Whether you’re just starting out as a professional photographer or aspiring to be one, there’s very little that happens in this industry by itself. You’ve got to be proactive and you’ve [...]

We know time is your most valuable commodity and there’s never enough of it.  So in putting together this year’s program we took the key points from everyone’s feedback following last year, and built a new Skip’s Summer School!The three top requests from our 2011 post-program survey were more hands-on training, more marketing/business and a more central location. 
There [...]

A key component of every marketing program I’ve ever presented has included talking about photographers using their own images for holiday cards and stationery. Think about it for just a second. There isn’t a better, easier or more subliminal way to use your images. You’re just there, soft sell, no pressure, just showing your work.
This [...]

Last week’s post about RETV with the Albert Watson interview got some great comments, one of them from good buddy, Terry Clark, who wrote:
“Before the Internet I read five newspapers in the morning plus thumbed thru a few magazines or books on photography. Yes, it took a bit of time, usually about 90 minutes, but what a [...]

Great photography is about passion, not just for the craft itself, but for life, friends and the human spirit. It’s also about positive energy and good old enthusiasm!
Since meeting Catherine Hall at WPPI a few years back, I’ve never seen her when she wasn’t passionate about our industry. She was the second annual WPPI [...]

Next week I’ll get things back to focusing on the “how to” aspect of photography, kicking off the week with a great guest post from Catherine Hall.  However, for now I’m left with absolutely nothing pressing to write about this morning! That’s happened, at best, maybe three times in the last two years!
So that puts me in [...]

The fun of my career these days is the variety of projects I’m working on every week and this past week was no exception.   It started with getting the word out on the 50% off discount to WPPI next year for Skip’s Summer School attendees.  Then came a few new blogs on GoingPro2010 and a [...]