Master Retoucher and Printer to Avedon, Penn, and Vogue. 2pm on a Tuesday and I'm getting weepy listening to Strauss in my Studio. Yeah, Art makes me weep and getting lost in a live recording of Don Quixote, waiting for the last 6 minutes with Rostropovich, Berlin and...
Fashion
Hands Of The Artist
Vicky Chow Who's ready for a massage? It's Monday, July 1st and my hands ache. No, it's not arthritis. The last few months feel like a blur. A handful of fashion shoots, gym and composer portraits, concert shoots, photo editing on steroids and business expansion have...
The Cheat Sheet
With the warmer weather finally here, I've been getting a slew of questions lately as to how to prepare mentally and physically for sessions with me. As we'll be on the road in Chicago, LA and other exotic places this Summer, I thought it might be easier to create...
Escape with Me
Daydreaming is underrated if you ask me. Remember when you were in primary school and just drifted off into space every now and again? Or you're older and still do that at the office? You'd get into trouble because you weren't paying attention. For us creatives, that...
Less Is More.
Just because we can, doesn't necessarily mean we should. We can take more photos, add more lights, bring more outfits, explore all the props, try this crazy hair and makeup experiment, but we must ask ourselves... why? Now I have nothing against experimentation and...
What is Style?
LORD GORING: “You see Phipps... Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Oscar Wilde's quip spoken through Algie in An Ideal...
HAPPINESS IS…
Actress and Health Coach Lianna Nielsen The authentic You. I love my job. It's an obsession and a responsibility not to be trifled with. As a purveyor of Happiness, it's a serious business when it comes to one's coveted image. A photograph is not just an image, just...
Never Use a Discount Plastic Surgeon
Diamond Dental It goes without saying, for most of us that is, that you don't want a plastic surgeon who's running deals or specials of the week. Today Only... Nip and Tuck the...
Nose Deaf
Kaya Bryla-Weiss So it's 2019 and it's already happening. I see it everywhere. Do you see it? Maybe you've gone... Nose Deaf! It's a new year filled with possibilities and opportunities. The excitement builds for you to share on social media, emails, print ads and...
Curiously Cropping
"Fill the frame", he'd say in that Ukrainian accent of his. "Allllleks, look at this photo you took. The action, the story is over here, (pointing to the upper left hand corner of the photo) yet you chose to fill your frame with grass and nothing. Get in closer. Fill...