Two years ago, I wrote about a

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Again with this image. This site used it (and many other Flickr images) to illustrate a story about break-ups. This site is heavy with advertising, and ballparking their listed advertising rates, could be clearing $21,000 a week. This one was much more interesting than the others: Dear XXX XXX, I’m writing you because you’re listed [...]

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Creative works in the United States are protected by the Copyright Act of 1976. In a nutshell, the Act says that when you create something, you own the rights to use it, and others cannot use it without your permission, (excepting certain Fair Uses). The Act provides remedies in the form of financial penalties when [...]

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The day after my son was born, Jackie and I were in the hospital room watching him sleep. A woman in scrubs came in the hospital room and told us that she’s the photographer and do we want pictures of our baby? She was stonefaced and abrupt. I was taken aback, because I thought she [...]

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In an earlier post I wrote of my five year plan and how an assessment of Flickr, among other things, might be useful. I signed up for Flickr around that time and uploaded my portfolio. Along the way, my photostream has sucked up the Animal Model Kits project and the Capsules thing I’m working on. [...]

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Over the past five years, I’ve sought the advice of far more established professionals, listened to industry experts, talked with buyers and art directors, and read various magazines, websites, and blogs. With respect to a path toward advertising photography, the general consensus I took was roughly: Make lots of photographs Shoot the kind of stuff [...]

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