I’m excited to be shooting`the wedding of Kate & Greg next September in Boston.
We had a fun time exploring Big Top, the new candy shop on South Congress and other venues along the strip.
KIPP School is preparing under-served students for college. My friend Marisa teaches an art class there every other Saturday and had me come in as a guest lecturer. The amazingly well behaved students were open to hearing about my journey around the world and making a career as a photographer. It was a challenge for me to actually speak about myself and my work and then engage the students for three different classes, but definitely a rewarding challenge.
Last week I was contracted to shoot a full-page portrait of a UT Professor for the magazine, Focus On Science, put out by the College of Natural Sciences. The professor, Dr. Bajaj, is pushing the frontier of 3d visualization of things like molecules and viruses and other fun small stuff.
One of my favorite weddings last weekend, complete with a bagpiper!
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International Foodservice Editorial Council was in town last week at the Omni. They hired me to cover the event over a few days. There was plenty of food and wine to go around.
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One of my most frequent clients, Anne Kiel, contracted me to update the images of her products, beautifully hand crafted sterling silver and mixed media jewelry.
Apologies for being incommunicado for the last two weeks. Since returning from Merida, it’s been non-stop business and craziness which is partly encouraging and partly dementiafying.
Enjoy some of these select images from my week in the Yucatan Peninsula–on assignment for Central Abroad Program.
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This is too cute not to share. Thanks to Brad and Em for the photo of my niece and nephew preparing for Halloween. They bring so much joy to our family.
Two books I’ve recently purchased have been incredibly helpful on the business aspects of assignment photography.
Pricing Photography is a well written resource on pricing in the industry. It helped provide some leverage as I was negotiating last week with Metropolitan Gallery. The gallery just signed a contract with me for usage of two images from the Luminary series–they’ll be creating 40″x 60″ installments for permanent display in Tempe, Arizona.
I’ve also been gleaning some business skills from John Harrington’s Best Business Practices for Photographers. It’s especially helpful with structuring estimates/contracts and licensing images. I’ve used estimate forms and examples twice already this week–just signed with IFEC for event photography and UT’s College of Natural Science magazine, Focus On Science for a full page portrait.
Now I just need to find an accountant, any suggestions?
