A MENTOR’S JOURNAL
THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU CAN BE.
QUARTERLY PUBLICATION: Q1, 2019
I am committed to making a magazine each quarter of my life from now on. I will fill it with creative ideas and images and designs that I work on throughout the previous quarter. This is my first publication and features images from a road trip through...
WHY YOU SHOULD MAKE A BOOK EVERY YEAR
Why You Should Make a Book EVERY Year I remember being in a wonderful little book store in La Jolla one summer's day. There were shelves after shelves of photography books. Monographs, portfolios, personal albums, anthologies... just about every sort of...
THE MYTH OF “PERSEVERANCE WINS”
The Myth of "Perseverance Wins" YouTube is full of them. Facebook memes fill your inbox. Books, articles, and myriad Ted Talks discuss them. The ones who are now great but once were not. We all know the stories, almost legends. Einstein failing math class....
OWN YOUR CREATIVE EDGE – ESCAPE “GOOD ENOUGH”
Where the magic is. One of the things I see too much of is “like them” shooters cloning or borrowing heavily from other photographers in order to create a faux style of their own. What may even be worse is the group of photographers who are presenting...
PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS A BUSINESS CAN KICK YOUR ASS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D3rCQawKdM
REINTERPRETING THE 10,000 HOUR RULE
TEN THOUSAND HOURS? LET'S REEXAMINE WHAT THAT MEANS IN A PRACTICAL SETTINGBy now we are all familiar with Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000-hour rule from his pop-psychology book, Outliers. It was actually discovered by K. Anders Ericsson in his investigation of...
HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED YOURSELF FROM TAKING A PHOTOGRAPH BECAUSE OF WHAT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD SAY?
Have you ever stopped yourself from taking a photograph? And then thought later “I should have taken that shot”! The excuses and reasons abound for not taking a photograph that presents itself to you. Not the right time Not the right lens. Not exactly what I had in...
WHY I DON’T HATE UNSPLASH
For those of you who do not know, Unsplash.com is a website where users can post their images for other users to download and use for any project of any type. Free images. Absolutely and without strings. And so many photographers are so very pissed about it. Me... not...
DISRUPTERS ARE DISRUPTING THE DISRUPTION
Hulu aggregated TV and Movies into a streaming service that operated just like TV. Netflix took the model of the corner video rental store and put it online. Both started by presenting work already created. Amazon came in and made access to...