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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. [...]

There are a lot of photographers who seem obsessed with gear and creating “correct” images. I keep seeing posts on blogs, in forums and social media, talking about the importance of creating what I would call text-book photographs. Here’s what I think: L-glass and grey cards will not make you a good photographer. Correct exposure [...]

This was really just supposed to be about my monthly challenge, but ended up being about TFP/CD shoots. For those not in the know, TFP/CD is short for Time For Print / CD. Which means that you pay the models with photos instead of cash. At the beginning of February, I had set myself the [...]

I had a good time at the UGCX conference in San Jose, in spite of a few minor obstacles (like airplanes breaking and my wife getting food poisoning). Simply meeting other people in the industry, hearing their thoughts and ideas, was not only inspiring for me personally, but also opened my eyes to a few [...]

I added 631 new photos to my personal collection in January 2009. That isn’t a lot, but you have to consider that I did not schedule a single photo session or work on my stock portfolio. These are all snapshots taken for no other reason than my own amusement. At the end of 2008, I [...]

If you haven’t heard of UGCX, then you either don’t give a hoot about user generated content or you’ve been living under a rock. Either way, I am going there to speak on a panel about microstock. It was everyone’s favorite diary writer who persuaded me, even though I’d sworn to put microstock on pause [...]