Redlights and Redeyes

Had a nice chat with Holly Stuart Hughes over at Photo District News for an article in their September Education Issue about what I’ve learned so far freelancing with a much wider net (wedding, magazine, newspaper, pr, sport, commercial, etc.) this go-round after falling flat on my face a few years back.  Go check it [...]

Got asked to do a little guest blog post for Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider blog…check it out!  Here.

Wow. No other words can describe the imagery and devastation coming out of Japan right now following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami Friday.  Whenever anyone asked where I always wanted to go in the world if I had my choice, the answer has always been Japan.  I never got the chance to see it  - [...]

So do you think this is photojournalism? If the answer is yes, then what we knew as photojournalism at it’s purest form is over and POYi just killed it.  Well, they didn’t kill it so much as just dig another knife deeper into the back of its decaying corpse.  It’s time to really address the [...]

Sometimes we all need reminders.  I wrote this in 2007 for Sportsshooter.com, with the help of the inspiring photo geeks with aphotoaday.org.  Enjoy. 1. We could be sitting in a cubicle right now processing paperwork….for the rest of our lives. 2. Seeing something that no one else sees. 3. Looking at people for an extremely long [...]

You know, the Internet is a weird place. There are some things I write that I truly mean.  There are others I write just to poke the flames a bit and start conversations – like my own little message board. Do I honestly think the Holga/Logo/Diana are bad things to shoot with?  No.  Hipstamatic apps? [...]