Going into its fourth year, Skip’s Summer School just seems to get better and better, but this year it has little to do with anything I thought of. This is about input from all the alumni from past programs together with many of the instructors.
I absolutely understand how hard it is to decide on what [...]

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 few years Roberto Valenzuela has become a very good friend, but the friendship came out of the respect I have for his refusal to ever compromise on the quality of his images.  He made a statement in the first workshop I ever heard him teach, “Practice doesn’t make perfect.  Only perfect practice [...]

WARNING:  It’s a Monday morning rant…
I accept that we live in an instant gratification world. I accept that Twitter has changed the way we spell. I’ll even accept the gr8 words U can cre8 to cram a full paragraph of thought in2 140 characters.
However, what I refuse to give up is my belief that nothing [...]

Normally I don’t use my blog to wish good friends “Happy Birthday”, but this one is kind of special. In February Scott Bourne and I spent a day with Michele at GoingPro Bootcamp and her message was amazing. She started out her part of the program sharing images from her first wedding and by everyone’s [...]

This year, as part of the Skip’s Summer School program, I want to do something no other workshops have done. Thinking about what’s the most critical marketing component of every photographer’s business, I decided it was time to do a website review.  This year every attendee gets a website review as part of their registration. [...]

Last week good buddy, Michael Corsentino, was in Orlando visiting his mother.  We decided to get together and spend some time just hanging out. He drove over from Orlando.  Sheila, Michael and I had dinner together and then he and I proceeded to get into a marathon conversation about photography.

New photographers don’t realize how small [...]

The number one request from past attendees has been for more hands-on classes at Skip’s Summer School. So, this year we’re doing just that. I’m going to be doing a series of profiles over the next couple of weeks on this year’s faculty and Bobbi Lane seems like a great one to start with.
Whether you [...]

Long before PPA did their storytelling campaign in the 90’s I believed photographers were the ultimate storytellers.  Look at a wedding or for that matter any event.  Nobody can tell the story better than a great photographer. If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then a photographer has the ability to match the [...]

This is the second part of a two-part series from good buddy John VanSteenberg. We hit a few of his favorite Tamron lenses yesterday and today we’ll round out John’s creativity and ability as a portrait artist.
If you’ve ever met John, then you know he eats, sleeps and breathes photography. He’s all about passion [...]