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Shooting the Numbers

Number 19

For some reason I like to take pictures of numbers, especially when I am visiting a different place and everything looks new. I’ll wander around neighborhood and sections of cities and get lost for a while as I search for cool looking numbers. My thinking is that “these may come in handy someday.” So far, [...]

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iPhone Camera + apps = endless fun

Walking Tall - San Francisco

I am addicted to my iPhone for everything now, constantly checking with it as if I can’t make any decisions or take any actions without first consulting it. It’s my watch, it’s a flashlight, a calculator, a trusted direction-giver, a portal to the outside world, a toy for my kitten, and a camera that I [...]

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Mezcal Mania in Mexico City

Mezcal in Mexico City

Mexico is the land of tequila, so you’d expect that Mexico City would be a great place to try a wide variety of tequilas, right? Well, wrong. For whatever strange reason, we’ve found that there’s very little choice in tequilas in this city of 21 million people. Instead, they’re all into mezcal. We went to [...]

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What Photographers Wished They Learned In School

The most popular story I wrote for the PhotoShelter blog was titled “The Top 11 Things Photographers Wish They Learned in Photo School,” where I asked eleven highly respected photographers to tell me what lessons they wished they learned earlier in their careers. The response to this story has been incredible. I’ve heard from several [...]

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The Price of Prints

The Price of Prints

People are always asking me what they should be charging for their photography – and honestly, I have no idea. It varies for each and every photographer. But, to try and give people some guidance, I interviewed 15 photographers who have proven success at selling prints, and turned their information into a 4-part series called [...]

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