I didn’t plan things this way, but there’s a lesson in this post and it’s followed me most of my career. Here it is…When something doesn’t go as planned you need to be honest with people, readjust and then move on. It accomplishes nothing to point fingers at other people and create a lot of lame [...]
We know time is your most valuable commodity and there’s never enough of it. So in putting together this year’s program we took the key points from everyone’s feedback following last year, and built a new Skip’s Summer School!The three top requests from our 2011 post-program survey were more hands-on training, more marketing/business and a more central location.
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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 [...]
This is an amazing industry and so much of every one’s success is based on networking. Well, meet a relatively new friend who’s friendship just keeps growing all the time, Levi Sim. I “met” Levi through PWSPI when it first started. Sadly, PWSPI didn’t survive in the current economy, but the friendship with Levi did. He [...]
Thanks to the connective power of the Internet and social media, I can share this wonderful story with you. San Diego photographer, David Michael August, attended Skips Summer School just a few weeks ago. Earlier in the week, he published a short video of the Hyde family’s photo session on Skips Summer School 2011 on Facebook. I [...]
After each convention or workshop most of us tend to follow the same plan. We leave totally pumped up! We’ve got new ideas in our heads and often tons of notes. We’re excited and we’re ready to start implemented them the minute we’re home, but it rarely ever happens.
We get home and realize we’ve underestimated [...]
This morning we wrap up Summer School and it’s interesting to see the transformation that’s taken place after just two days of a group of people being together. Even the word “interesting” so understates the enthusiasm, fun and the privilege I feel at being a part of Summer School. Sure, it’s my event and my [...]
At every convention there’s always one program that becomes a favorite and last night was one of mine. “Open Forum” started by accident at last year’s Summer School when a couple of attendees, new photographers, asked if a few of the instructors could hang out for a little while and just talk. Within twenty minutes we had [...]
As many of you are reading this I’m headed to the first Monday morning program of Summer School. Everybody attending this year is going to hear at least ten different educators talk about some aspect of professional photography, from marketing and business to technique. Unfortunately people, especially new photographers, spend so much time being distracted [...]
One of the fun pre-program aspects of Summer School is looking at the demographic data to understand more about who’s coming to this year’s program and why. Here’s this year’s profile.
We’ve got about 300 people coming as of this morning and to start it’s a 45/55 split between men and women. There are more women [...]
