Photography Contests A huge congratulations to all who entered the Best Emerging Photographer Photography Contest, hosted by Nations Photo Lab and myself. We have named our winners!! There was a great deal of talent and inspiration in this gallery, with over a thousand entries – we truly enjoyed viewing all your creative work. A big […]
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Shopping Spree Giveaway GIVE!!! The NPL Holiday Shopping Spree Giveaway -> Want to give $500 of photography to someone, or some organization, you know deserves it??? (Will have to act quickly: this Contest ends December 16th & the winner is chosen December 17th!) What person/family/cause that you love deserves a Nations Photo Lab shopping spree […]
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PDN’s Photo Plus Expo This week I will be speaking at PDN’s Photo Plus Expo at Javits Convention Center in New York City. I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at this particular convention a few times now, and it’s a rather massive one. Anywhere from 24,000 – 40,000 photographers will attend over the course of […]
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Photographers from around the world just made their annual spring trip out to Las Vegas for the WPPI Convention – and so I did, too. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been speaking at this convention for five years already – what on earth?!! And this year was set up to be a very interesting […]
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I got a note from a client, now friend, today – saying that her daughter brought in a photograph I took of her (when she was six months old) for her “Write, Show, Read” day at school. She signed the note, “Your work lives on!” Here’s their snapshot of the photo: And, adorably, her 7 […]
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Professional Photographer Magazine A big thank you to Professional Photographer Magazine, the beautiful glossy publication of Professional Photographers of America (PPA), for featuring me, my professional photography, and my “work-life” work (something very significant in my own life and work) in this beautiful, 5-page spread in their November, 2012 issue. If you’re not already a […]
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It is said we should not look back too often, so as to avoid sinking too much of our todays in the events of our yesterdays. I even read a very recent post that broke that down more specifically, surmising that a healthy view of life is only 5% looking back, 25% looking forward, and […]
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I am here in New York City, delivering presentations at PDN’s Photo Plus Expo and Photographer’s Ignite, hosted by creativeLIVE. I walked into the cavernous Javits Center and found one of my portraits hanging giganta-size at the opening registration at the Photo Plus Expo. It truly was an honor to see it – and of […]
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reDefine Show with Dane Sanders Dane Sanders, a portrait and wedding photographer, is our guest in this episode of reDefine. We discuss business consulting, publications, favorite camera gear, and advice on how to succeed by making great decisions, taking action, and Being “You”. Dane Sanders enjoys speaking with professionals about how to transform their creativity […]
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The request was to photograph their youngest child, the youngest of four, before his first haircut – before these striking, Botticelli curls went away. I was able to get quite a lot of portraits of this dapper young boy, and of the rest of their family, but just a quick preview for now… * […]
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reDefine Show with Bambi Cantrell Bambi Cantrell, photography legend, sits down with us in this episode of reDefine. We discuss her journey from point & shoot photographer’s assistant to one of the most decorated photographers in the industry. Sharing her trials, errors, and takeaways from a longstanding career in shooting and education, Bambi offers some […]
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reDefine Show with Jessica Claire In this 2-part episode series of our biweekly program, reDefine Show, we sit down with internationally-renowned wedding photographer, Jessica Claire. Join in as Jessica shares how extreme hustle and some expense got her business off the ground in a heavily-saturated market and how she eventually developed her brand, Shootsac, a company […]
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I had a beautiful morning photographing this family of four, visiting the United States from Hanover, Germany. This was our second family photography session – the last one was actually four years ago, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, when they were merely a gorgeous family of three. This was a particularly fun shoot […]
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Adorama Giveaway and The New Blog! I’m very excited to announce that this brand new spankin’ blog is officially LIVE. We’ve been working on it for months, and I’m quite happy with the clean simplicity of the layout, the ease of access to the rest of the robust website, and the much, much easier means […]
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Photoshop World: A First I’ll be heading to Photoshop World in Las Vegas this week, at Mandalay Bay. This will actually be my first time attending, and I’m really looking forward to presenting several courses. Big thanks to Matt Kloskowski and Scott Kelby for the invite. If you’re there, please come see me – […]
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