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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 [...]

One of the greatest dangers of working alone, is that you are working alone. There is no one there to crack the whip or hold the carrot, so it is up to you to find your own motivation and inspiration.
There are many tools and websites to help you with this. You can use GTD, project [...]

If the following seems a little abstract to you, don’t worry. It is. There’s a mantra, I’ve been repeating to myself for a long time, but I only recently wrote it down. This is it:
“If 1 in 10 ideas become projects, that’s good. If 1 in 10 projects is finished, that’s great. If 1 in [...]

This came up during a portfolio consultation I did, where the photographer had a background in journalism and documentation, and so was in need of a tool to help with pre-planning. This is something any commercial photographer should be familiar with, including part-time microstock contributors.
I recommend a simple scripting method. Even without any actual planning, [...]

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 [...]

At the start of every month, I pick out the best of the previous month’s posts written for Zoom In Online. Most of my posts there are shorter than here, often related to news and smaller personal projects and experiences, all of it with a photography angle. Here are my picks from August.

Postcard Marketing – [...]