How to Deal with Creative Boredom
I get about a dozen emails or comments on social media every month asking me what to do when you wake up one day and you realize you’re bored and you feel like your photographs are boring and because the only only thing worse than making boring photographs is being bored yourself, and because I think there’s a connection, I …
What’s the That?
After the start of my course, The Compelling Frame, there were some good questions and excellent conversations about the lesson on Intent. I thought I’d clarify it in the discussions we were having, but I’m going to post it here because I think it might be illuminating for a larger audience. I want you to imagine you and I are …
Change How You Make Photographs.
Today’s the day you’ve been waiting for! For some of you it’s the day I finally stop teasing you about The Compelling Frame. For some of you it’s the day I finally stop talking about it. If you’re among the first, then you’re in luck! If you’re among the second group, I’m sorry to say you’ve got another week to …
3 Ways to Start Seeing Better
This is the final of three videos I’ve made to introduce you to the course I’m releasing next week. The Course is called The Compelling Frame and I’ll give you a sneak peek at it in this video. The video is about learning to see because while we’re exploring making stronger photographs with composition and visual design I think it …
3 Ways to Improve Your Compositions Now
Last week I put up a video about Making Images That Connect. This morning I’ve put up the second video. If the first video was about the need to make stronger images, this is about how we begin to really do that. It’s not a long video and it’s not a full-on course in composition (that’s coming!) – but doing …
How To Get Known: Part Three, My Story.
In a world where the opportunities to share our work with a growing audience have never been so vast, it’s easy to get paralyzed and to approach that audience less than intentionally. Over the past 12 years I’ve found an incredible audience for my work – both images and words – and in this last of three episodes exploring the …
Making Images that Connect
If you’ve been around here a while you know I’ve been on a bit of a tear about the importance of composition in making images that connect: images that do more than just get a like on Facebook or Instagram. And I’ve been around long enough to know that this is the big hurdle of most photographers – sure, we …
How to Get Known: Part Two
Last week I started a conversation about “getting known”, or finding an audience for your work and if you didn’t see read that post – or see that episode, you might want to take a couple minutes to do that first because those ideas are foundational this article will be more helpful to you if we’re on the same page. …
How to Get Known: Part One
This is an edited transcript of Episode 68 of my show, Vision Is Better, which you can find on YouTube here. If you’d rather listen to it as an mP3 file, you can get that here. For the next couple posts I want to look at one big question – a question that I’ve been asked many different times and …
The Fear and the Hunger
The life of the photographer, or any artist, really, can be an emotional ride. It should be. We’re emotional beings, and if the struggle doesn’t make you want to laugh or cry, or both, on any given day, you probably need to check your pulse. I wrote this for the latest episode of Vision is Better but I know many …