Archive for July 2012
Eye of the Storm
I’m aware that I’ve been slower than normal at getting posts up this July. This is partially because of a two-week road trip I took, but I can’t blame that really (I wrote the Van Gogh post from the beach). Blogging is as much playtime for me as any vacation activity I can think of. …
Read MoreResponding to Clients Who Kindly Ask You To Violate Your Policies
Clients. We love them. We’re constantly thinking about how to get more of them. But once we do….we find a whole new set of issues cropping up! Most of the issues aren’t horror-story-esque, but the subtle difficulties are often the hardest to handle. One reader sent in a question asking what to do in situations…
Read MoreWhat Van Gogh Will Teach You About Being A Photographer
I spent this morning under a beach umbrella reading some collected letters of Van Gogh. Shadows of seagulls grazed the sand around me, and my feet slowly slid outside the shade into the sun, but I was so breathtakingly absorbed in Van Gogh’s journey that I hardly noticed them baking into a lobster hue. Van…
Read MoreDe-Lurk Success!
“The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.” -Steven Pressfield Thank you all for participating in De-Lurk Day! What sheer pleasure to read about hundreds of people taking a…
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