Tagged With « work »
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November grab bag of resources
November is upon us! With October ending, I have new web resources to share. The way I work is that as I see something on the web that I find interesting, I drop it into a Word document titled “New_In_Process.” When the end of the month rolls around and/or I have enough items to share it becomes a blog entry, like this.
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Nov 09
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Philadelphia vs New York in baseball (and photography)
Professional baseball’s World Series is underway and the Philadelphia Phillies are playing the New York Yankees. Having lived in both Philadelphia and New York, I know just which team I am rooting for! My experience in each place, as a resident and as a photographer, strongly shapes my team loyalty.
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Nov 09
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The executive portrait, a.k.a.,”the five minute drill”
This podcast goes on location with me as I make an executive portrait.
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Sep 09
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An aspiring photographer wrote me…
An aspiring photographer wrote me: “What advice might you give me on how to find opportunities (no matter how small), where I might find some interest in my work, or how to best focus my efforts.” Such a question leaves me wary because answering it takes away from what little time I have left between earning a living as a photographer and nurturing this site. As I pondered how to answer him, I realized the answer was really another blog post in the making.
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Jul 09
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“Working” a situation by changing the point of focus
This podcast explains how to “work” a situation and make a variety of images of a subject, by changing the point of focus.
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Jul 09
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Photographer’s Daily To Do List
I wish I could say I wrote the following photographer’s daily to do list, but I did NOT. The Ohio photographer, George Remington, wrote it. You can see his work at: http://www.georgeremington.com Read the list carefully, to begin to get a better sense of all the things involved in being a professional photographer.
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Jun 09
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Photo-essays, past, present and future
I have been producing photo-essays in one form or another for a couple decades. In that time, my approach to them has changed, as have the various ways that photo-essays are seen. After a long, slow decline in outlets, a new and exciting one has appeared.
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Feb 09
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Alone on the water: the last Rhode Island Quahoggers
This enhanced podcast takes you on a journey into the lives of Quahoggers (Rhode Island’s shellfishermen,) exploring their traditional (but threatened) way of life.
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Nov 08



