• Podcast with green screen photographer Mike Gatty
    03
    Aug

    Human to Human Contact During Covid-19

    Last week, I was interviewed for a Podcast by Ahron Glazer, Chief Marketing Officer at Executive Media Solutions.  It was a fun conversation!  It’s a little strange watching yourself be interviewed for an hour, but I got a lot out of our talk.  Take a listen and let me know your thoughts. One part of […]

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  • Phoenix Convention Photography for General Mills
    21
    Jul

    Photography and Story Telling

    On Monday morning, bright and early, I was interviewed by a Ahron Glazer for his Executive Talk Podcast series and Blog.  It was a great interview (if I do say so myself).  We discussed strategies for marketing your business during COVID-19, building trust with clients, and brand as the soul of your business. But my […]

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  • New Coronavirus infections in the US according to the New York Times.
    13
    Jul

    Marketing your photography business during COVID-19

    As COVID-19 infections rise throughout the United States, it may seem like a great time to put everything on hold.  After all, if you’re an event photography business, chances are you’re shut down.  Every day I wake up and check the New York Times COVID-19 tracking page, and every day I’m horrified.  I keep expecting […]

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  • Whoopi Goldberg and Overcoming Dyslexia Billboard
    06
    Jul

    Dyslexia, COVID-19, and The Business of Photography

    It took me one year to learn how to play the theme for Star Wars on my piano.  I was twelve.  I’d look at the music notes on the page, and it might have been written in hieroglyphics.  I couldn’t figure out how to pay attention to the left hand when the right hand was […]

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  • US Event Photos COVID19 mask giveaway in Baltimore
    27
    Jun

    The Business of Photography: Building Your Brand During COVID-19

    Last September, Matthew and I moved to inner-city Baltimore.  A “transitional” neighborhood, we’re blocks from John’s Hopkins University Medical Center on Baltimore’s East side.  Our neighborhood is economically deprived with lots of struggling people. The primary mode of transportation in our neighborhood?  City bus.  The second most dangerous way to travel in the age of […]

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  • Photographer Mike Gatty, Owner of US Event Photos, photographing in Baltimore during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    03
    Jun

    Building your event photography business

    Even while stuck at home during COVID-19 The more things change, the more they stay the same.  During this once in a century pandemic, it’s hard not to feel trapped in amber.  Everything. Is. Stopped.  Just as you start to feel normal as you venture out to the big box store, you remember you have […]

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  • Photographer Mike Gatty directs participants at this Las Vegas green screen photo booth
    24
    May

    COVID-19 and Green Screen Photo Booths

    The path forward becomes clearer. With Tourette’s Notes! As the country looks toward opening up, one of our flagship clients, the Travel and Adventure Show, asked us to put together details of how our 20′ x 20′ green screen photo experience will look moving forward.  (Oh, geeze.  I can just imagine seeing myself on CNN:  […]

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  • 25
    Jul

    Moments

    I call them moments.  When I’m traveling, and it’s raining, and the music in the Uber is perfect, and Matthew is next to me, and I think: all is well.  It’s a moment. What Denver International Airport looks like at 4 am. When I’m laying in a hotel bed, and a storm rages across the […]

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  • an Orlando green screen photo booth participant joins Queen Elizabeth in a parade.
    12
    Dec

    The Secret of Our Success: Part 3 Be Queen.

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  • 07
    Feb

    Bay Area Travel and Adventure Show

    Photographers Mike Gatty and Matthew Frey will head to San Jose, CA for this San Francisco Green Screen Photo Booth at the Bay Area Travel and Adventure Show.  Held February 17 and 18, this Destination Photo Booth will feature the Florida Keys and Key West.  There is an admission fee to the general public for the […]

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