• 26
    Oct

    The Business of Photography Part 2: Giving them what they want.

    In the last blog post, I started a rambling discussion on the business of photography.  While your eyes may have glazed over, there is a method to my madness:  so many photographers are ARTISTS (as in, Ohhhhhh, Mi Cherie!  I am an ARTEEST!”) and not business people.  Then they become frustrated as two things happen: […]

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  • 05
    Oct

    The Business of Photography: part one, finding your niche and making it work.

    “Oh my God that’s sooooooo cool!  You are, like, sooooooo lucky!” That’s my seatmate’s reaction every, single, time when I answer the question of “what do you do?” to the person crammed into the middle seat of the Southwest flight to Wherever City. “Oh, I’d just loooooooove to see your work!” Inevitably the second breathless […]

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  • 02
    Mar

    A 21st Century Palace Slave

    All palaces should have a billiard room. During the past month, Matthew and I moved into a palace.  Literally.  This house is a palace.  True, the kitchen is in a state of flux. True, one bathroom is ripped apart and missing everything, including all things that make it a bathroom.  True, another bathroom only has […]

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  • 19
    Jan

    Travel Tip: LOYALTY PROGRAMS and Uber travel

    The last two weeks were spent on the road.  From a bitter cold trip to Washington, DC with Carpet One to an even colder trip to New York City and the Retail Show with WiPro, and finally to the icebox of Chicago with the Travel Channel and the Travel and Adventure Show. It’s that last […]

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  • 01
    Jan

    Photography Equipment: What I Pack, Part 1

    I wrote this series six months ago.  Time to show what’s changed in just 6 months…. ****** In the last couple of weeks, I’ve written two series: the first on trends affecting photography and, second, portraits.  I like this format, I admit: if you’ll indulge me, I let my mind mull over a subject, and […]

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