Good buddy, David Ziser, has been kind enough to share a few of his best posts with us and this one, like all of his posts, is another top-shelf presentation.  It might be from last year, but that doesn’t make the topic any less relevant.
As a combination of the tough economy and advances in [...]

At every convention there’s always one program that becomes a favorite and last night was one of mine. “Open Forum” started by accident at last year’s Summer School when a couple of attendees, new photographers, asked if a few of the instructors could hang out for a little while and just talk. Within twenty minutes we had [...]

About six years ago I met Kenny Kim for the first time. He came to a program I was doing in Cleveland with Pictage. Kenny drove over from Chicago and it was the first time we’d met. Since then, I’ve bumped into him at just about every major event in professional photography.  He’s always got a big smile and his [...]

Anybody out there old enough to remember the old Fedex commercial? The theme was simply making the point about what happens when your package doesn’t arrive. In this case it featured a sad executive without a presentation doing shadow puppets for a board meeting because his package was lost.
Well, this morning is a shadow puppets [...]

I’ve talked a lot about networking and how small an industry we really are.  Usually it’s been in the form of advice to newbies about being careful of what they say when it’s negative, because you never know who’s close to who.  This morning it’s just for the fun of it.  What got me going [...]