Edward de Bono is a motivational author and physician who is quoted as saying:
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
As usual, a lot of the quotes I find really get me thinking about our industry. When you think about it everybody has the same [...]
It wouldn’t be the week between the holidays without a nice walk down Memory Lane. In November, 2010, I talked my Dad into writing a post for me. Now, a year later and having moved to within a few miles of his home, I’m even more amazed at the relevance of his experiences from business, starting 70 [...]
My good buddy, Scott Bourne, posted this a long time back, but it’s so relevant. While creativity itself isn’t so much a learned trait, learning to open your mind and just enjoy the freedom of being an artist can definitely be enhanced. This is about allowing yourself to just be inspired, because it’s the only [...]
Over a year ago, Scott Bourne, wrote a post called “Photographic Inspiration”. It got me thinking about inspiration and where it comes from. We all have some place we go, whether mental or physical, that helps inspire creativity.
One thing I’ve noticed in the last couple of years, inspiration, is more than just coming up [...]
This morning we wrap up Summer School and it’s interesting to see the transformation that’s taken place after just two days of a group of people being together. Even the word “interesting” so understates the enthusiasm, fun and the privilege I feel at being a part of Summer School. Sure, it’s my event and my [...]
I’ve been writing a series for GoingPro called Real World Real Lessons and having a good time with the concept. This morning while wandering through Cyberspace, I read this post from a little while back by Scott Bourne. It might be one of the best lessons yet for professional photographers.
To Scott’s point, the industry is [...]
This morning, when I was determined to sleep a little later, I was rousted out of a sound sleep by a delivery truck and the annoying “beep – beep – beep” as he backed up just outside my folk’s building. It took me a second to get over the disappointment of my plans to sleep [...]
It’s Saturday morning and as usual I’m keeping it light. I had a funny thing happen to me yesterday. I was working on GoingPro, the book Scott Bourne and I are doing together. I was stuck and just couldn’t find the way to write what I needed to focus on. Then I realized what was [...]
One of the fun things about Social Media is the number of people who you can “meet” and see their work. Barbara Yasuhara commented about something I wrote on Twitter. I looked at her site, saw some fun images and called her. I love the concept of Guest Posts, especially from people I don’t know. [...]
This past week Skip’s Summer School 2010 launched. The response has been pretty amazing, but it’s time I cleared up the myth that comes with everyone thanking me for putting this crazy wonderful thing together. The truth is, while it’s got my name on it, I couldn’t do it without support from all the sponsors, [...]
