One of my images that I get asked about frequently is “Ice Princess” from a few years ago.  I had recently had my camera converted for IR photography and started experimenting with using it on people.  The look it produced was very unpredictable and sometimes pretty creepy (as evidenced by my Week 10 portrait from the 40@Forty Project). The model was...

One of my favorite subjects to photograph is high school seniors.  In many ways, they are the perfect age.  They are still young enough to have a little of that childhood spirit left- but old enough that they can offer creative input.  By working with teens to plan the session, you can push the standards of senior portraits to the next level. Now every senior...

As artists, we are always looking to grow.  It is a constant struggle to find new sources of inspiration and flashed of creative genius.  I’m a big believer that you have to feed your creativity by soaking up as much art as you can – everything from photographs and paintings to a a great movie or interesting book.  By training your brain to...

With the huge popularity of Twitter and Facebook, poor LinkedIn has kind of fallen to the wayside.  The question is… are you making a big mistake my not including LinkedIn in your social medial strategy? Last week, I wrote a post comparing Google Plus and Facebook.  Facebook is the king of the mountain, but Google is gaining ground.  Last time I checked,...

You’ve written the perfect blog post… now what? You publish it to your blog, cross your fingers and sit back to wait for the traffic to roll in, right?  The problem is- where do you get all the traffic?  I asked some of the best in the business to give me a few of their secrets of publicizing a blog post.  Basically, after they publish a post...

Summer is over and the fall is right around the corner.  Next thing you know, we will all be saying, “Wow-is it the holidays already?”  As the year winds to a close, we discover that most of our New Years resolutions have fallen to the wayside and we reset them for the next year.   If you set some goals this January- now is the time to evaluate your...

It seems hard to believe there is any possibility of someone trying to compete with Facebook.  Google, however, has decided to give it a go. If you haven’t heard of Google Plus (or Google+) it is basically the company’s attempt at creating a newer, better Facebook.  I wasn’t too interested in another Facebook, but got curious and decided to...