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Yesterday Richard and I spend the day at the Holiday Inn Brookline where I gave a lecture along with Sean Alanzo Harris and Craig Orsini to graduating students from NESOP (New England School Of Photography.)
The students are finishing up their final days at school, and are getting ready for their portfolio review. Sean, Craig, and I gave presentations on our bodies of work.
Sean, Myself, and Craig (far Right)
The event was organized by Selina Maitreya, who is a famous photographers portfolio consultant. (she was actually the first in the United States, and has been in the biz for almost 30 years…) She has a new book that is worth checking out called How to Succeed in Commercial Photography.
Sushi lunch at JAE's
We started a day at JAE’s in Brookline for some sushi (which was delicious!) I had never met Sean or Craig before, so I was excited to do so. I have been following Craig’s career since I began my business, and it was really cool to get to lecture along side of him. If you are not familiar with his work, you should really check it out. He really has a cool sense of humor, and is a consummate professional. Read the rest of this entry »
DC Shoot Off Crew. Photo by Johnny Bivera
Well we made it to the Navy League Building without incident, and were immeadiatly greeted by lots of familiar faces, the first of which was Brien Aho, who was one of the event organizers.
Brien is an great military photographer, and has been spending a lot of time as of late mentoring young photographers.
Greg and military photo legend Ken Hackman
One of the photographers that I was excited to see was Todd Frantom. Todd is an amazing combat photographer whose images really strike me. We also got to catch up with our Coast Guard friends Tom Sperduto, Etta Smith, Annie Berlin, as well as lots of other old as well as new friends.
Mark and Mark from Nikon
Just as at the DINFOS workshop, the Nikon crew was in attendance. I got to hand it to Nikon for their participation. Both Mark and Mark kept busy handing out rental gear for the competitors to experiment with. Thanks Nikon!
Rabbit loving the train station...
This month I was asked to be a guest lecturer down in Washington at the D.C. Shootoff, so last thurs night Rabbit and I headed on down.
We would normally fly down to D.C. from Boston, but because we had to shoot till late on Thursday, and we had to be back in Boston early Sat morning, the only transportation we could get was the red-eye Amtrak.
I actually like taking Amtrak, but that’s to NYC. (and that’s the hi speed train called the Acela.) Unfortunately, the only train that was running that late at night was the Regional, which takes 10 hours. I figured, what the hell… it was better than driving, so we grabbed some tickets.
Can you tell I rode a train all night long....?
So here was our travel plan: Depart Boston at 10pm, train all night long, arrive at 07:00, subway to the Navy League Building, hang all day, give our presentation, subway back to the Amtrak station, 10pm departure back to Boston, 07:30 arrival, at our location on Sat at 09:00. (yes, we are insane…)
Train food....
The train proved to be quite pleasant. We brought some beer and some sandwiches, and were able to have a relaxing time. I was also able to get a ton of work done on the computer which was nice. (I also was able to get some solid zzzz’s thanks to Ambien.)
Once in D.C., we grabbed the subway right to our location. I will post tomorrow about the day, so stay tuned.
D.C. Metro Station...
Last month I wrote a post about my experience working with Livebooks (my website company.)
Shortly there after, I got a nice eMail from Michael Costuros the founder and chairman of the company thanking me for the kind words. (it was actually easy because the experience was a positive one…) Anyway, after his eMail, I got to thinking…
This month, I will be volunteering at the DC Shoot Off along with some other professional colleagues to give a lecture. I had just approached Calumet Cambridge in order for them to support the event, and I thought that Livebooks would also be a good sponsor. I pitched the idea to Michael, and Livebooks agreed.
The good news is that Livebooks will be donating a gift certificate for $800 off any LB web package!
So a big thanks to both Michael, and Livebooks for their support to the photo community!
Greg and the Calumet Cambridge crew, (R-L) Jeff, Greg, Steve C, J-Man, Steve F
Next month I will be going down to participate as a mentor at the annual D.C. Shoot Off organized by my friend Brien Aho. The Shoot Off is a mini workshop and photo competition open to all military photographers and civilians who work for the government.
On behalf of the Shoot Off, I approached Jeff (the general manager of Calumet Cambridge) and asked if he too would be willing to support the competition.
Without hesitation, Jeff graciously offered to contribute some prizes to the competition. So thanks Jeff and crew for getting behind our effort to give back to the photography community.
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Well here we are again on yet another airplane and as usual have an hour or two to kill….
Teaching at DINFOS
This summer has been a blur of constant travels, and it has been hard to keep everything straight. One of the things that I have been putting off mentioning here on this blog was the DINFOS photography workshop. (for what its worth… most of these photos were taken in “community” cameras floating around, so no photo credits…sorry)
Ken Hackman addressing students
Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the privilege of being able to catch up with (and even hire as assistants – Luke Pinneo will you please stand up) some of the students I had the chance to work with during that week in May, and have been rethinking several of the lessons taught, as well as lessons learned at the workshop. Read the rest of this entry »
