One of the reasons Scott Bourne and I are such good friends is the way we both think about the industry, especially the challenges photographers deal with outside the obvious of the economy and changing technology. Through GoingPro we’ve talked with thousands of photographers and the common denominator isn’t always the fact that they’re new and just [...]

Yesterday I was making some changes in my presentation for next weekend’s PhotoPro Expo show and I started to feel just plain rushed. For a minute or two I had sort of an out of body experience, feeling like I was trapped in an old Jimmy Stewart movie and to pass the time they just [...]

I recently saw an email blast from my buddy, George Varanakis at Rangefinder/WPPI. He listed the top ten reasons not to miss WPPI. Personally, I’d drop a few and add a few, one of them being your ability to interact with vendor after vendor to help strengthen your business. I’d also add, one trip to Vegas gets you exposed [...]

Good buddy, Scott Bourne, ran this a little while back on his blog, but it makes such a good point about storytelling and that in turn ties into print competition. Storytelling is more important today than ever, especially with so many of you starting to shoot video and mixed-media. Photographers have always been the ultimate storytellers, but like everything in the [...]

Two years ago, in the very early days of Skip’s Photo Network, my now good buddy Scott Bourne wrote the following post. It couldn’t be more simple to understand. It’s ten points to help you be more effective in your use of twitter, blogging and podcasting. 
What prompted me to give Scott an encore performance was something I [...]

This week I wrote a post for GoingPro about making mistakes that will run some time over the next week or so. What prompted the post was listening to the panic-stricken voice of an aspiring professional photographer as he went through the “what if” reasons for not being ready to go pro, even though his work [...]

Scott Bourne ran this post a few days ago on GoingPro, but it’s so relevant to everybody. He was targeting new photographers who were just turning pro, but here’s what I’ve seen with this tough economy. There are way too many people running around with great ideas and terrific dreams who are just afraid to [...]

A lot of my “job” these days is just being a contemporary version of the old town crier. For those of you who weren’t around then, (Just beating Scott Bourne to the punch on the fact that I’m older than him!) the town crier literally had only one job, to spread the news shouting it out as [...]

My good buddy, Scott Bourne, posted this a long time back, but it’s so relevant. While creativity itself isn’t so much a learned trait, learning to open your mind and just enjoy the freedom of being an artist can definitely be enhanced. This is about allowing yourself to just be inspired, because it’s the only [...]

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 [...]