It’s Monday morning, affectionately known as “First Tuesday” here and the start of new week. It’s also the last week of July and I feel like I’m trapped inside an old Jimmy Stewart movie and the hands of the clock are spinning. The summer is flying by and all the retailers seem to be wishing it [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about turning Akron into a hub for photographic education. I’m ecstatic to have been given the thumbs up to make an exclusive announcement: Clay Blackmore, one of the finest wedding and portrait photographers in the country, is bringing his new program to the John S. Knight Center in Akron on October [...]
There’s a great program on Monday night with Matthew Jordan Smith here in Akron at the John S Knight Center. Making it even better, there’s a special promotion running in the Akron Beacon Journal today only - use the word “Beacon” when you register and the cost for Monday night drops to around forty dollars after a [...]
A little over a year ago, frustrated with the economy and spending a lot of time talking to photographers who were finding new ways to “fight the battle”, I started my own campaign: Just because the media says it’s going to be a bad year, doesn’t mean it has to be!
Well, here we are a [...]
Earlier in the week, this post first appeared at our blog for GoingPro, but I’ve gotten such great feedback it makes sense to post it here as well. Just remember one thing when launching any new project or business – take your time and do it one step at a time. You can’t rush perfection!
Last [...]
Here’s the last batch of entries into the “Working With What You’ve Got” Contest for Skip’s Summer School. There have been some really great images submitted, all proving that if you look hard enough there’s great scenery around us everywhere we go!
We’ll be making the announcement at noon today of the winner for a full registration [...]
The variety in what’s been sent in just keeps getting better…and to think it all started because somebody said, “There’s nothing cool to photograph where I live!”
Two images from Amar Ramesh
Wendy Mayo’s three images:
Three images from Vickie Gonzales
The contest runs until midnight on July 7th! Thanks everybody for being a part of this. It’s a [...]
The request for images in yesterday’s blog has resulted in some great work, simply demonstrating you don’t have to be in Malibu or the Rockies to get some great back drops for your images! The idea of the contest was a little half-baked, so here are the “rules”… we’ll keep it simple!
1) Contest ends on [...]
Every now and then I’ll be around a bunch of photographers and they’ll be looking at images of Joe Buissink’s, Jim Garner’s, Jerry G’s, Yervant’s or Bambi’s for example and somebody will always say, “Sure the images are great, look at where they are! I’ve got nothing that looks like the ocean where I live!”
This is [...]
Losing the last couple of weeks and finding things don’t always work the way they should created some serious problems, but remember there’s no such thing as a problem, only challenges. The bottom line is that last year’s Summer School was incredible and the response from the attendees gave us some great ideas to make some changes [...]
