Scott Bourne and I spent the last two years working together on the GoingPro project, which started as a book published by Random House and grew to be one of the most successful blogs in professional photography. Through all of the posts, podcasts, tweets and workshops we did, nothing would have been accomplished if our [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Scott Bourne and I announced we were shutting down GoingPro2011.com. In the letter from both of us, which was on the site for a couple of weeks, we said,
“We find ourselves at a crossroads. The GoingPro project has helped so many aspiring photographers, but in its current form it’s pretty [...]
In doing website reviews, one of this year’s Summer School benefits, I’ve been able to help a number of photographers with their “About” section. Here’s the challenge, everybody has a hard time talking about themselves, but it’s really because they’re don’t understand what their target audience really needs to hear.
People tend to talk about how [...]
If you were to look back at all the posts written over the last few years by me and good buddy, Scott Bourne you’d find hundreds that relate to expanding your education and networking. They’re two key topics you just can’t hide from if you’re headed down the road to being a professional photographer. If [...]
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 [...]
The year is 1987 and I’ve just taken over as president of Hasselblad USA after being with Polaroid for over 17 years. Hasselblad was just in the process of kicking off a workshop series with a young commercial photographer I’d never heard of, Dean Collins. I had spent virtually all of my Polaroid career, at [...]
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 [...]
A year ago, good buddy and GoingPro partner, Scott Bourne, did a rant on five of the most stupid things photo-related companies do to us. It’s one of my favorite posts, because of two things, the actual points he made are dead on and the sarcasm with which each point hits [...]
Every year Summer School gets a little better thanks to the feedback in the survey we do a week or two after the program ends. After last year’s school we heard requests for more hands-on shooting, more marketing and business and several suggestions to make the program more centrally located. Well, we’ve managed to do [...]
Back from WPPI last week brought to a close what I refer to as my 2012 Trade Show Season. It started with PMA @ CES then IUSA in New Orleans, PhotoPro Expo in Covington, KY and back to Las Vegas for GoingPro Bootcamp and WPPI. For many of you there’s still another round or two with [...]
