Over the last couple of years I’ve written a lot about personal projects and their importance to helping you stay focused on your long term goals. Personal projects help keep you grounded. They help fuel your passion for photography when your full time job or full time photo-specialty seems miles away from what brought you [...]

I don’t remember where or when I first met Lou Jones, but we’ve had one of those friendships that pops up every year at a convention. I know we met in the mid 90’s, back in my Hasselblad days.  Lou’s based in Boston and I feel like I’ve lived just about everywhere but New England [...]

With Charity Fest this week it’s appropriate to remind everybody of the two key reasons you need to build up your efforts for charitable causes.
First, it feels good! You’re looking for the community to be good to you, so you need to be good to your community. It’s that simple. No matter how much success [...]

Last week I wrote a post about shooting Neurochromes as it related to an image of my parents holding hands. Nicole Wolf followed up with a post and the trailer for a 28 minute film about her grandfather, “Smiles” Green. Then last night, while surfing through Photofocus, I ran across an old post from Scott Bourne. [...]

Ever have somebody come into your life and even though you might really know them for only a few years, you feel like they’ve been a friend forever?  Well, meet good buddy, Nicole Wolf. I don’t even remember how or where she came into my life, but it’s primarily thanks to social media.
She’s done [...]

This week Bambi Cantrell, in her all day workshop as part of the Akron Photo Series, showed some of her images from other projects. Her scenic and fine art images are as spectacular as her best known wedding images, family and children’s portraits. 
Well, looking at some of David Ziser’s work over the years I found [...]

I’ll be the first to admit I’m a sucker for just about anything to do with pets.  I loved the fact that Janine Memon-Dietz wrote about working with abused animals.  Her Charity Fest story was the very first one in the pipeline, just minutes after I posted the call for this year’s stories.  She’s also the [...]

Last year Nicole Wolf did a couple of guest blogs that were tremendous.  She was willing to do another, but not until I read what she sent did I realize the importance of her journey.  This is a relatively long blog, technically too long for the normal blog post, but there’s no way I wanted [...]

While this blog is a labor of love, it’s time to crank up the volume a little more and in a small way it’s up to you to decide where it goes next.  If you go back through the archives, there’s a ton of information on marketing/business mixed together with some humor (well, at least [...]

Social Media is more than just a way to stay connected or communicate.  For me it’s become the ultimate doorbell when it comes to knocking on the doors of  photographers who I’ve never met and who are inspirational.   I’m not sure how the friendship with Nicole Wolf even started, but I wound up on her site [...]