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 [...]

WARNING:  It’s a Monday morning rant…
I accept that we live in an instant gratification world. I accept that Twitter has changed the way we spell. I’ll even accept the gr8 words U can cre8 to cram a full paragraph of thought in2 140 characters.
However, what I refuse to give up is my belief that nothing [...]

There’s so much to choose from when it comes to on the road tours these days. Well, here’s one that definitely needs to be on your radar.  And, if you like the program, join us at Skip’s Summer School where Clay Blackmore will be teaching hands-on. Imagine how much you’ll raise the bar on your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As much as this might sound like an infomercial, it’s also meant to get you thinking about every program you attend. Time will always be your most precious commodity and it’s imperative, especially when you’re attending a major convention, that you always get the very most bang for your buck.

Just a few weeks ago Scott [...]

In the news this week you’ll read about our second GoingPro Bootcamp coming up February 18 in Las Vegas. This is an all day seminar covering everything but photography. Bootcamp is about all the ingredients to help you get your business off the ground or fine tune your existing business in marketing, management and promotion.  [...]

Only a handful of photographers have seen this short video on You Tube, but thanks to Software Cinema this is just a teaser.  Software Cinema was founded by my old buddy Dean Collins and today is home to some of the very best educational videos in professional photography.  It’s worth a trip to their website if [...]

There’s so much going on in our industry right now. It’s tough to keep track of it all. So, here are a few things requiring you to circle the dates!
 

Today on Twitter is the last day to follow @kubotatools and @skipcohen and get yourself in the running for one of the first copies of Kevin Kubota’s [...]

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 [...]