Need to supercharge your creativity? Looking to trim some photographic fat, get lean and mean, and be ready to rumble? Here’s something to kick things in gear as the mid-year slump approaches. I am officially announcing the I Will Make You Suffer Workshop (hereupon referred to as the IWMYSW), a mashup between a casual get together and hell week during finals. The IWMYSW is a loosely-structured, full-throttle, small-group workshop for 3 and a half days from July 23-26 focused on photographic growth. It’s going to be awesome! Think drugs, partying, and shooting, except without the drugs and partying.

Here’s what you won’t get:

• A bunch of beautiful decorations from key wedding designers to post on Instagram
• A stylish brunch session

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Mr. Meredith was the English teacher everyone loved to hate. Nerdy to the core, a little out of date, and painfully meticulous, he was the one who taught AP English in my freshman year of high school. What a way to start. His weapon of choice? The comma fault. One comma fault got you a “gift D,” as he would say. Of course referring to a D as a gift was the surest way to foster universal disdain in a class full of people hoping to make their way into top-tier schools. But he was acutely aware of that.

A month into the class, nearly everyone was failing, and if there was a way out of that hell, I’m sure … Read more...

Haven’t had as much time to post as I’d like with the season kicking in, but there are some great things coming down the pipe, so stay tuned! What do I have in store? Here are some sneak peeks for what you can expect to see. But first, don’t forget to check out my latest article on The Photo Life: The Truth about the Rockstar Economy. It’s a good one!

 

Coming Soon
The new Ground Glass site: Improved look. Improved interface. A better way to stay tuned

The critiques: I’ve been working on write-ups, and I’m moving along. Thanks for everyone who responded.

The Ground Glass journal: A print piece dedicated to featuring the work … Read more...

I hate the post office. I hate the hours, I hate the response time, I hate the entire thing. And if there’s one thing worse than the post office, there’s the post office in New York. It’s amazing how much of a difference one small letter can make.

“Your package is shipping by UPS.” OK. That’s fine. I can live with it. I’ve had the random incident here and there, but for the most part, they get the job done.

“Your package is shipping by USPS.” What a difference an “S” makes. I suppress the fear welling up in the pit of my stomach. I tell myself it will be alright. But the sweat beads and my skin grows cold. … Read more...

Oddity isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, people will pay handsomely for it if it fits the tenor of the times. Oddity just means you’re making decisions that other people aren’t yet, whether it’s composition, toning, timing, or anything else. If it works, people catch on and catch up, and pretty soon, it becomes common sense. That ship can sail fast, because very often, it doesn’t actually mean you’re making different decisions. It just means you’re just the person willing to share what many are keeping hidden. So if you have the ideas, get them out there.

Don’t worry about it sinking the ship. You need quite a few bad ideas to really wreck a business, but indecision and … Read more...