A MENTOR’S JOURNAL
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MEET CARMEN BLIKE, PHOTOGRAPHER, ANTIBES, FRANCE
Meet Carmen Blike, an expat American photographer living in Antibes, France. She is one of my students and is really rocking photography in her little town by the sea. Carmen is a hugely dedicated and committed photographer and rarely does she not have a shoot day...
HOW TO FIND WORK TODAY
I recently posted this article at Petapixel. It is a simplified system based on my course Find Photo Clients NOW which is not for sale at this time. This is not new stuff, and it is not rocket science either. It is hard work, laid out simply for you to start today....
HOW TO DEFEAT GRAVITY
HOW TO DEFEAT GRAVITY I was noticing something day before yesterday as I stopped in a little slot canyon in the Escalante to make a photo or two. What I did, something we all do all the time, made me stop and think about how we have learned since we were very small to...
WITH GREAT RESPONSIBILITY COMES GREAT POWER
The Power of Responsibility "With great power comes great responsibility"... known as the Peter Parker syndrome. Actually, it dates from around 1500 or so. And that statement has been a part of a lot of philosophies through the ages. However, I tend to reverse things...
SPEAKING WITH THE ASMP MEMBERS, MAY 20, 2020
Keeping Focus and Moving Toward a Post-COVID19 World with Don Giannatti I am honored to be speaking to the membership of ASMP about my ideas on moving forward away from this "lockdown". My focus is on what has remained and what has changed and utilizing our vision to...
CREATIVE RISK AND PUSHING THROUGH
CREATIVE RISK AND PUSHING THROUGH At no time I can remember has the need to be able to deal with creative risk been more important than now. These times are unprecedented and the need for taking a risk even more important than it usually is. Creatives always face risk...
SO THIS IS DIFFERENT… WHAT’S NEXT?
What's Next? If that question was posed to some 'talking head' they would begin espousing information and data with a self assuredness that makes most of us feel inadequate at best. "Wow. That guy really knows his stuff." But he doesn't. Not really. No one knows what...
COUNTER-INTUITIVE APPROACHES TO THE “NEW NORMAL”
Approaching the "New Normal" I would say right off the bat that I hate that term, the "New Normal" as it makes it seem like something we volunteered for. And it wasn't.And it isn't. There is nothing 'normal' about these last 6 weeks. And there will not be anything...
CREATIVE APPROACHES TO WORKING THROUGH THE QUARANTINE
As most of the country is seeing the numbers falling back into a more manageable condition, we are seeing evidence of the impending reopening of the economy. Most states are looking at doing it in stages, and with controls in place to prevent a re-occurrence of the...