It’s more important to build your work instead of focusing on the imagined results. One of my favorite movies is Field of Dreams. You may think it is corny… (see what I did there) or whatever. I don’t really care. To me it is a tone poem for belief in…

We all have crap that gets in the way. — I have mine, you have yours. I have never met anyone who didn’t have stuff that slowed them down, made them pause, or made them consider their worth. Never. And I have met some pretty impressive people. They are the tops in their fields. From artists to CEOs, I have…

Photographers need to commit to long-term and systemized engagement. You’re a good photographer, designer, or writer. You have some talent and you love doing what you do. So you want to sell yourself and your creative services to someone who needs them. (They DO need them, right… you did your…

Photography and art are super competitive. Make sure you know what you need to do to have even a moderate rate of success. As many of you know, I teach photography to photographers who want to work as professionals in an industry that is hyper-competitive and seemingly under assault from…

There is a lot to think about when you are a deliberate photographer. I have been asked if there was some sort of list of things I look at or think about before I click the shutter? There is. I used to have a checklist that included “was the film…

I have always had opportunities come from the gigs I take “for free”. You gotta recognize opportunity and be able to filter it from being taken advantage of. Ahh, the interwebs. A glorious place where people who have little experience delight in calling out those who have decades of it…

It was great to have an assistant that could double as talent for a photo. Ahh, memories. Some of the best parts of living are the experiences you garner, not the stuff that eventually gets thrown away wrapped in excess shopping bags and dumped without ceremony into the depths of…

There are acceptable and unacceptable realities in online criticism. Critics… there are a million of them. Seems like it anyway. And when you are starting out in the world of professional photography, getting good, really good critiques of your work is very important. Getting poor, biased, or misguided critique can…

Really. Too many do. And it is time to get serious about what you show. Change is constant. Change is ever-changing. The resulting change of ever-changing change is constant change. I am sorry. I just couldn’t help myself. But hopefully, you get the point. Now, let’s talk about portfolios. Specifically…