2014 Boston Marathon My studio manager, Sarah, and I were able to watch the live stream of the Boston Marathon yesterday at lunch, on an iPhone, while I was between portrait shoots – and we were absolutely glued to the tiny screen. It was incredible to watch such incredible athletes run so fast, so powerfully. […]
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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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Photography Contests – Best Emerging Photographer I’m teaming up with the generous peeps at Nations Photo Lab to hold one of the more fun new photography contests – Best Emerging Photographer. Nations Photo Lab prints so much incredible work each and every day, they would like to recognize one talented artist as “Best Emerging Photographer”. […]
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Mom’s Night Out Nikon’s famed Nikon School (aptly named, eh?) is offering a brand new program: Mom’s Night Out, intended for moms on the go who love photography and need a night out. I personally think that all moms need a night out, across the board, so if you love photography, too, this is a […]
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$100 Gift Card Giveaway from Adorama If you’ve read any of my posts on gear, like this one about why I switched from Canon To Nikon, you’ve heard me say that I truly don’t believe great photography is about the latest and greatest gear. I think it’s about the way we each uniquely see the world, […]
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On Bali, Snuggly Chickens, and the Creative Entrepreneur There’s been just over a month between my last post and this one. In that time, a great deal has happened. Happily, my family and I traveled from California, where I filmed back-to-back programs for creativeLIVE (more on that very soon), to Bali (more on that here, […]
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Marketing Photography & The Work You Love In this new episode of ReDefine Show, I speak with Joy Bianchi Brown, the braintrust behind marketing photography and running the studio, as well as the business parter of Jules Cafe. We chat about her best ideas (within 10 minutes of conversation!) on how to create revenue from the work […]
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In this brand new episode of ReDefine Show, I speak with Matt Kloskowski, Lightroom guru, talented landscape photographer and Director of Education for Kelby Media Group, about his transition from sales to marketing to art. We met up at Photoshop World in Las Vegas, and he shared how he made his transition from an early job […]
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Free Song License with Posing Guide We have JUST released the 2nd Edition of The Posing Playbook … For Kids Who Don’t Do Posing with an additional 20 pages of content, for no additional cost. This new, expanded children posing guide now includes over 80 pages of content-rich direction, more metadata and even more detailed […]
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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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When I photographed the wedding of Kim and Angelo, which was profiled in Essence, I remember thinking that it was probably one of the best parties most had been to – it was big and it was beautifully stylish, everyone was in a great mood, and it went late, late, late, so fun, late. And it […]
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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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The Posing Playbook… for Kids Who Don’t Do Posing I am quite excited, relieved, fulfilled, and all kinds of other positive words, to announce the very quite official launch of our new Posing Playbook … for Kids Who Don’t Do Posing. You can download your copy here! We have been developing this informative guide […]
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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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