Beauty Where You Least Expect It
When I was a young boy (young as in a single digit age), my mother would take me on long walks. It used to drive me nuts; not because I didn’t like walking, but because she stopped what seemed to be every 10 seconds to look at something. It would take hours to make it [...]
How Do I Choose a Photographer?
This article is focused on wedding photography, but it applies to any type of photography where you’re interacting on an active level with the photographer, not only as the client, but also as the person in front of the camera. Ok, so let’s get down to business. We’ve all seen wedding images. What sets images [...]
Weddings: How guests and their cameras can affect the commissioned photographer
Who do you know that doesn’t own some type of camera? Probably very few. Almost everyone has one. But owning a camera does not a professional photographer make. There were a few wedding celebrations I photographed last year, where 100+ guests had their own camera, and wanted to take photographs of their own. Dozens and [...]
Image Theft on the Web
If you took away all the images we see in everyday life, such as in the newspaper, on the web, magazines, art galleries, or in marketing & advertising, those worlds would be a pretty dull place. The fact is we’re visual creatures, and we like to look at things. Viewing photographs of friends and family [...]
Why I’m a Photographer
A relative of mine had, until recently, not really understood my approach to photography. He’s the type of person who has lived long enough to be tired of being sold to when the product or service isn’t worth getting excited about. While I had told him earlier, it was just one of those things where [...]
RSS vs. Email
For those not familiar with RSS, trust me, you’re going to love it. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. When most of my blog readers were subscribing via regular email, a few would tell me that I was sending them a lot of emails. Thing was, I was only blogging up to 3x a month! [...]
