This morning I was listening to my local NPR station here in the Bay Area (KQED) and was caught off guard by a Perspective from Peggy Hansen, a Bay Area “Professional” Photographer (quotes mine). Perspectives is a short audio commentary on a topic by one of the KQED listeners. What caught me off guard with [...]
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Category Archives: Musings
Apple iPad: For Photographers?
Today was the big Apple announcement of the new iPad. While you can view all sorts of immediate reaction from various technology pundits, this view of the iPad is from a photographer’s perspective (check out my labs later this weekend for additional thoughts from another viewpoint). [For full disclosure, the only photographer related posts I have read [...]
Has Social Networking Killed Original Creative Art?
Tonight I was transitioning from Day Job into Photography by watching KQED’s Spark. The episode that was on was about Benton, Ramos, and Riley; Three artists from San Francisco that were luminaries of the 1960′s California art scene. During the secrtion on Fletcher Benton, a sculpture that was one of the first to create kinetic [...]
Recession Based Sales Strategies: Peer Referrals
Tonight I heard about a very interesting sales strategy that a photographer is using: peer referrals. What makes this so interesting is that the photographer focuses on high school portraits and apparently does very little outbound marketing. Rather, this photographer got creative in ways they could get new clients. They apparently used their existing network [...]
Decisions: Which Do You Prefer?
After my trip to Napa Valley a few weekends ago, I decided that I have to enter one of my photos into the Napa Valley Mustard Festival Photo Contest this year. With the submission deadline a week away, this is the driver I needed to fulfill my goal of printing my photography more this year. [...]
The View From My Studio
<img src=”http://www.focalpower.com/media/2/2-49ab273b-d0-500.png” mce_src=”http://www.focalpower.com/media/2/2-49ab273b-d0-500.png”> This is the view from my studio/digital darkroom. Actually this is mostly my digital dark room as I have another room (with large north facing windows and vaulted ceilings) which doubles as a studio. Nothing creative, nothing stylized, just my workspace and my view. Both change over time. The trees outside my [...]
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