In anticipation of a trip to NYC (tomorrow!), I’ve redone my portfolio, over the last two weeks. I say I’ve redone it, but it was really a group effort. I’m grateful that people are willing and interesting in giving feedback, since it seems it’s impossible for a photographer to judge his own work with much [...]

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I submitted to the Personal Work section of the PIX Digital Imaging Contest. If you can figure out how to locate my images on the contest site, that is. The link below used to get to my images, but somehow, their site moves pictures around, perhaps randomly. Thanks PDN! Stop by and vote for me [...]

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(Warning: dead animals and animal parts herein. I wrote before that this project might offend some people, and I’m convinced.) I’m mainly done with this Animal Model Kits project. I’ve been booked a whole lot between when I started it a couple months ago and when I finished it last week. They’re specimens, if you’re [...]

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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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I booked some long assisting projects recently and haven’t been able to work on my own stuff. When those long projects ended, I found myself frustrated and irritable, and feeling like an imposter photographer. I thought to myself, “I need to get inspired, get motivated, get to the point where I feel like a photographer, [...]

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Dear Photographer/Designer/Ad Agency, Do you know how big my monitor is? I think you don’t, since, when I access your website, you expand my browser window to full screen, leaving this little tiny content area surrounded by a vast field of grey/black/white. I wish, if you’re going to presume to take over my browser that [...]

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