Competition Can Make You A Better Photographer
"Competition sparks excellence" ~ Lorne Greene Over the years, I've often heard that 'competition kills creativity'. In my personal experience, I've found the opposite is true. Now, I'm not talking…
"Competition sparks excellence" ~ Lorne Greene Over the years, I've often heard that 'competition kills creativity'. In my personal experience, I've found the opposite is true. Now, I'm not talking…
Ontario photographers have been left to fend for themselves. In each of the lockdowns in ON, photographers have been largely prevented from working. We are allowed to take on commercial…
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later" ~Harold S. Geneen Welcome to 2020: the year…
"There is no luck except where there is discipline." ~ Irish Proverb In my dealings with other photographers, I often hear the word 'luck' come up. "I just got lucky" being…
"Every time you do a project, you learn something new." ~ Justin Timberlake Oh, the difference a few years makes to a project... When I started my "Aqua Femina" series,…
Some days, you just wake up and good things happen... And that's exactly how Monday of last week went for me. I woke up just like any other Monday but…
"I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes." ~ Kevin Hart Every year, I enter select photography competitions.…
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." ~ Ernest Hemingway Yep, I'd have to agree with that. Everyone can break... and get stronger. However,…
"From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent." ~ H. P. Lovecraft First, the important stuff: at this year's PPOC National Salon, I won my third Best in…
'Figure Study: skillful and creative artistic representations of the unclothed human figure; in whole or in part.' When I was a kid (yeah, yeah... in the real long ago), I…