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One of the most inspiring things to me, is to connect to other creative people. It doesn’t matter which kind of creativity, really. It’s about the need to make things, tell stories and doing what you love. Another Passion is my latest ongoing project. It’s a collection of mostly interviews with diversely talented people who [...]

I often have plans that don’t pan out, or that I end up not sticking to for one reason or another, but every now and then one of them will work out better than imagined. My plan for 2009 was to put microstock photography aside and try to shed the rule-set of that particular genre. [...]

I’m guilty. Asking the person in front of my camera to say cheese is such a cliché, but I have done it many times. However, just recently I was struck with a violent disgust for it. It came from thoughts that had been rummaging around in my head, a mixture of overexposure through other people’s [...]

None of us should ever stop learning. By attaining knowledge we grow both as human beings and as professionals, but there is learning and then there is information overload. With so many excellent photography blogs, magazines and communities, there is no shortage of advice on anything and everything related to the field. If you were [...]

Lately I’ve been having fun with all sorts of things that are only marginally related to photography. I’ve been making a couple of toys, just for kicks. First it was the Microstock Crossword. Not that I’m a big crossword fan (mostly because I’m not that good at them). I just like making stuff. So I [...]

I have discovered a shift in my photographic work. For a few years, I’ve been thinking in terms of what would be cool in my microstock portfolio, and it has been an eye opening experience to let go of that idea. You may remember that I purposely decided to stop focusing on microstock, in the [...]