The Faces Of Cancer Project

I am starting a personal project to help bring added awareness to the terrible disease that is cancer. If you have been diagnosed with cancer or know someone who has and are interested in getting some free photographs, please check out my web site and click on the "The Faces Of Cancer" link on the right hand side for more information.

Education

As a photographer, I feel it is important to continuously strive for improvement. I always want to be learning something new whether it be photography techniques, Photoshop techniques or fun and creative ways to interact with my clients through customer service, marketing, etc.

I frequently attend seminars and tradeshows to learn from world class photographers and vendors and I just recently had the opportunity to learn from two great photographers, Craig Kienast and Vicki Taufer. All I have to say is Wow!

Craig is a Photographic Portrait Artist who is doing some amazing stuff in Photoshop with overlaying images to create cool backgrounds from textures. He frequently writes articles for Rangefinder Magazine and can be found speaking at many national and regional photography seminars and events.

Vicki is the owner/photographer of a very successful photography studio in Illinois. She and her husband Jed started this business about five years ago and in the first three years transformed their business from a "basement" studio in their home to a beautiful 4000+ sq ft studio in an old bowling alley which they fully gutted and renovated themselves. Vicki can be found speaking at many national and international photography seminars and events.

I truly learned a lot from listening to these two wonderful and inspiring people and hope to see them again in the future.

THANK YOU Craig and Vicki for sharing your inspiration and knowledge!

Home Studio

I have been spending a lot of time and $$ on getting my home studio to a functional point. I just last week hung my background roller system and hair light. I am waiting to receive my custom canvas backgroud and I am getting ready to put shelving in for extra storage space to manage all the junk that keeps getting in my way while shooting in the studio. I can't wait to get everything in order and have a clean studio!

My first blog

Hello everyone, this is my first official blog posting. I have wanted to add a blog to my site for sometime but I just didn't have the time to research them and figure out what I needed to do to get it up and running. Wow, had I known how easy it was I would have done it long ago. Everyone should have their own blog!