Your Decline Is Inevitable. Your Misery Is Not.
I have been making pictures and telling stories for more than forty years, and I have had to reinvent how I do it more than once. Recently I listened to a podcast that gave a…
Month: October 2026
Isolate or Include? What a Black-and-White Street Photographer Taught Me About My Own Approach
I recently listened to Alan Schaller on the Pangolin Podcast. He's a London street photographer who shoots high-contrast black-and-white on a Leica Monochrome. On paper, we have little in common: he isolates a lone figure…
The Video Isn’t the Strategy
The assignment A church's leadership asked its communications team to create videos to increase engagement and giving. I was asked to help the team think it through. That sounds like a clear assignment. It isn't.…
Why the Assignment Is Only the Starting Point
Every assignment arrives with a picture already attached. An editor sends a shot list. A nonprofit asks for “a hopeful image of a mother and child.” A pitch gets written before anyone has visited the…
My Brand-New MacBook Pro Froze at Login. The Fix Was Hiding in My External SSDs
I updated my new 16" MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip to Mac OS 27 and then Mac OS 27.0.1. The computer started acting funny when I restarted the MacBook Pro, and I typed…
Who Are You Listening To? Why Photographers Need Principles, Not Just Influencers
A podcast conversation recently got me thinking about a 1983 magazine tip. Two researchers laughed about a hair-care trick one of them still follows 40 years later because she read it in a 1983 magazine. The…