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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week I ran a post featuring the promo video for the new Get In Motion tour, featuring Jeff Medford and Ross Hockrow. For many of you this will be your first exposure to a program that focuses on film-making, but this morning’s post really isn’t about the tour. 
While the techniques of telling the story in a [...]

Over the last few months I’ve run a number of great videos leading up to Summer School.  In fact, I’ve found great videos on just about everybody, with the exception of Jules Bianchi and her sister Joy Bianchi Brown and Roberto Valenzuela, but both of them did a couple of terrific guest posts. Jules and [...]

It’s a wonderful lazy Sunday morning. It’s a great time to catch up on loose ends and then, after an hour or so, work’s put away for the day.  What I’m dealing with this morning is my thought process on the photo politics of Northern Ohio. I just don’t get it!
Here’s a prime example: I was able to [...]

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 [...]

I found a quote recently:
My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say “Why am I doing this? I’ll never make it. It’s just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive.
Things are ramping up [...]

This is one of those days when there’s so much to talk about that a post winds up looking like the Meat Lovers Special at Denny’s! It’s a lot of disconnected thoughts, but plenty of meat in the concepts!
On the Summer School Scene: This year’s sponsors are a pretty amazing group of companies and the first [...]

There’s a point in life where you realize you’ve spent too much time working and not enough time just enjoying friends. It’s the old line about stopping to smell the roses.  I’ve written about it and talked about it a lot, but until a few years ago, I was just as guilty as many of you.
This [...]

When I headed out on my own just over two years ago I really thought I’d have more free time. I actually thought doing more freelance work and getting out of the corporate world would give me more time just to sit back and chill now and then…NOT!
But here’s the point, I have absolutely no complaints. Being [...]