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The photo used to illustrate this post shows how I sometimes feel, when people ask me what I do for a living. It used to be that I would say: I’m a photographer. Before that I was a writer, and eventually those two melted together and I began referring to myself as a writing photographer. [...]

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 am a man of many projects. As discussed before, I fully plan for most of my projects to either fizzle out or downright fail. One in ten is my personal success ratio, but instead of talking about the projects I have let go or failed on, I want to talk about what is going [...]

I’m sitting at a coffee shop in Seattle, watching the rain fall heavily outside. I’m waiting for something, but it’s not inspiration. That’s already there. It’s focus, I seek. The ability to hone in on that one important thing and go for it, grinding away until it’s done. Until I have a product of some [...]

I’ve been heavily involved with microstock for several years now, and before I say anything else, let me make one thing clear: It’s been an awesome, life-altering experience that I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. Look at it: I’ve said goodbye to 9-5 working, I’ve met a wonderful woman and started a new [...]

Let me start by apologizing for the recent lack of updates here. Most of my blogging about photography has been on the zoom-in blog, but more importantly, I have been working on getting the second draft of my novel finished, podcasting, music and a whole slew of projects (including making a board game). So, yeah, [...]