Late last year, Jeffrey Han of 7Pipe contacted me. He said that he’d noticed me because of my smoke pictures, and that he wanted to develop a new, much more polished brand look for his smoking pipe. His product was one of the first, if not the first, of its type, but lately the niche [...]

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In showing the running performance photos around to my peers, the idea wasn’t immediately accessible to everyone, just using the photos, sometimes even if I told them the idea. Here are those shots with the graphical overlays.

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I recently shot these rings for a client; she’s submitting her work to big book of rings. I think these rings are pretty cool. I didn’t actually try them on, so I’m not sure if they’re comfortable. But maybe it doesn’t matter. This composition is fun! I can see why this shot gets done over [...]

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Ray Massey on client lists: “He is able to offer a long and tedious list of impressive clients from around the world, guaranteed to send the most diligent art buyer to sleep.” What do client lists mean, after all? Are they merely an ego boost for the photographer himself?

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Took a step outside to do some more running shots…. I wanted to create charts in landscapes, to suggest performance improvement, challenge, increasing difficulty, that kind of thing. So far, people are having a hard time seeing the charts, so I s’pose I should be glad I didn’t get to the Venn diagram. Had superb [...]

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As a freelancer, it’s real easy to get off track. Keri Smith lays out a structure to help avoid that. “Ignore cool. Successful people do not try to be hip, they just do work that excites them.” Secrets of the Self-Employed

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