Mailchimp Introduces SNAP
There’s a huge amount of opportunity opening up for photographers who realize they’re really publishers now.
What Blogs Do You Follow?
Once every year or so I ask my Twitter followers for recommendations on blogs. I’m looking for any photographer/artist/philosopher/businessman whose writing is pushing you to be more creative. I’m not looking for the typical How To photo bloggers, only for those who are saying something
Composing Light And Shadows Fuck That Have
> “Composing light and shadows, fuck that. Have something to say.” — David Alan Harvey (via Eric Kim [https://twitter.com/erickimphoto/status/512282933038964736])
We Pros Tend To Think Of Ourselves As The Most
> “We [Pros] tend to think of ourselves as the most important class of photographers, but in the hundreds of millions of photos getting uploaded each day, we’re statistically insignificant.” — Teru Kuwayama [http://www.vice.com/read/teru-kuwayama-facebook-interview], Facebook’s Photo Community Manager
Do Whatever You Like
Rachel Nabors [https://medium.com/@rachelnabors/dont-do-what-you-love-41312c943e2] (via Austin Kleon [http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/95557908866]) tells us why “Do what you love” is bad advice: > “We hear “do what you love” so often from those few people who it did work for, for whom the stars aligned, and
There Is No Them
> “There is no ‘them.’” — Patton Oswalt [https://twitter.com/LeChased/statuses/506230219007864832]
The Invention of the Snapshot
“Not everyone was happy with the rise of the snapshot. Professional photographers were repelled by the weird, ungainly, often out-of-focus shots that amateurs produced.”
Forget Vision Forget Personal Style Forget
> “Forget vision; forget personal style; forget unique voice. These are not goals, they are by-products.” — Guy Tal [http://guytal.com/wordpress/2014/06/21/forget-vision/]
I Delight In Photographs I Delight In Words I
> “I delight in photographsI delight in wordsI delight in mixing bothTo see what happens if they bendMy pity for the pure photographerMy pity for the pure poetIs tempered by the responsibilityI have to three mediaWhereas they to only one.” — Minor White
For All The Care You Put Into Artistry Visual
> “For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you’re getting the story right.” — Ed Catmull, Pixar (in Creativity Inc. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812993012/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0812993012&