You know you want to. Tell me your secrets. Confess, you visual sinner, you! Reservation be damned. Be vulnerable and open up for once in your artistic life. Let your guard down. This is you, your image we're talking about after all. We're moments away from the...
Marketing
Something to Smile About
If you haven't figured it out, I'm genuinely interested in people. Portrait photographers by nature are makeshift anthropologists, psychologist, sociologist and various other "-gists" all wrapped into one. Me? I'm more interested in who someone is on a global level....
Make a Scene.
He sat there grinning like the cat that ate the canary. Was it because he was wearing canary yellow pants? Possibly. A wave of happiness washed over him. He was living Art in real-time. An artist of disruption. Bathed in a sea of black winter coats on the...
The Horror
Sharon HarmsRie Ogura, Hair and Makeup. I just got off the phone with a potential producer/client who's about to drop $15k into a video campaign for web, social media, the works. Everything but primetime TV. I can hear you gasping over the internet...Really? $15,000...
Machiavelli Plants Flowers on the Moon.
We're going to the Moon." "Oh yeah? Cool. And pray tell how are we going to do that?""Well...$hit. No frills on this one. No distractions, pulled punches or fancy bells and whistles. Just prose. Let's face it, humans can be awful managers. There's just so much going...
The Value of Fashion Week
What are my plans for Fashion week you say? Nothing. Kudos to those brave souls in the photo pits, struggling for the best angle with 30 other photographers, racing to process and sell the image to whatever new source will buy. Meanwhile, your favorite A-List...
Coffee and Creatives
Or in other words, "What now my love?" Over coffee and shoptalk I commiserate with my crew. We run at breakneck speed, building our businesses. What's the newest strategy? Where are our blindspots. What worked, what didn't. Meanwhile with the market... Household...
Wait for it… Or the Joys of Landing a Plane on Fire.
There are two types of people out there when it comes to "entrepreneurship" with some obvious grey areas and variances. The... I'm going to wait until conditions are perfect. My business plan has been vetted by 100 people; my product is the best/only one of it's kind;...
The Face of Today
Let's be honest here...I'm in this for the snacks, the juicy tidbits... face it, the stories. Not to mention a few one-liners to boot. 😉 I'm constantly blown away by everyone that I have the pleasure of capturing. It's a privilege getting to work with my clientele...
ARRESTED! … Art.
Arrest Wia Merriam-Webster verb ar·​rest | \ ə-ˈrest \arrested; arresting; arrests 1: SEIZE, CAPTURE specifically: to take or keep in custody by authority of law. Police arrested the...