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How to be an Active Photographer

What are the benefits to being an active photographer? You are a photographer. How do you approach your photos? Do you insert yourself with your subject to get the shot you want? Do you want for the “right photo” to come to you? Our good friend, Bob Holmes joined Marc Silber and had the exact

How to Convey Emotion Through Images with Deanne Fitzmaurice

Deanne Fitzmaurice is a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer and photojournalist known for capturing intimate and emotional stories through images.  I had the pleasure of sitting down with Deanne to discuss her methods for taking intimate and emotional photographs.  She was kind enough to walk us through her thought process of photojournalism photography as well as portrait

Hello, friends

Dear friends, As you know, I have recently launched Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative. We are excited about the great potential of this title based on initial reviews, interviews and feedback I have received from many of you. A number of you who focused your comments on the business, motivation,

Tips on Photographing on Vacation with Dan Milnor

Photo by Dan Milnor If you’re a photographer and you’re on vacation, how do you go on vacation and not drive the rest of your family crazy but still walk away with something good photographically? This is the exact question discussed by our good friend, Dan Milnor. Milnor has traveled to Maine many

Note to Self

Photo by Jose Francisco Morales Note to Self How do you keep focused when under stress? There are many who go through some level of stress everyday. It could be caused by almost anything in your day-to- day life, we all know that. For many of us, our stress originates from our job.

A Day to Remember: Peter Lindbergh

Today is a day to remember those who have been lost. Today we’d like to remember fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh who passed away last week.    via Nevada Sagebrush   Lindbergh discovered his love for photography while taking shots of his brother’s children. After he discovered his passion, he attended the Berlin Academy

Photography Community mourns Robert Frank

Today, September 10th of 2019, the photography community mourns an influential documentary photographer. Robert Frank passed away this morning at age 94.   Photo via NPR From the Beginning Robert Frank creative journey began when he was a teenager. While living in Switzerland, Frank studied and apprenticed with graphic designers and photographers in Zurich, Basel

Steps to Take for Your Creativity

Photo by Rachael Gorjestari Just this past Wednesday, August 22nd, I had the fortune of attending a talk by Marc Silber about his new book Create. His presentation was very eye opening to what will aid people in lighting that creative fire within themselves. Being a writer myself, my creativity is very important to me,

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