Our industry is full of professional keynote speakers and entertainers. Many of these have YouTube channels and blogs. Many professional speakers are not industry experts but rather those who know how to engage an audience…
[NIKON Z 9, VR 24-105mm f/4G, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 5000, 1/125, ƒ/5.6, (35mm = 32) + Godox V860IIN] There is a time and a place for everything–even on-camera flash! When I am working…
“You need to surprise me,” is what Tom Kennedy, former director of photography for National Geographic, said to me as a way for me to improve. [NIKON Z 9, VR 24-105mm f/4G, Mode = Aperture…
One of my favorite assignments is working with schools. Schools can be colleges or private schools that hire me to help them with their recruiting materials. Usually, this is the admissions office that is contacting…
While we are not entirely out of the woods with COVID-19, the numbers are significantly down for hospitalizations and death compared to just a year ago. This is excellent news. Early in the pandemic, businesses…
Within photography, Analog to Digital refers to moving from shooting film to digital capture. In the days of film only, many photographers shot their assignments and then dropped off their films at professional labs. There…
[NIKON Z 9, VR 120-300mm f/2.8G + 1.4X converter, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 25600, 1/1600, ƒ/4, (35mm = 360)] The first thing I noted about shooting at Roswell High School's Ray Manus Stadium is…
Caption: Ron Sherman talks about his work on display at the Roswell Arts Center on Friday, September 23, 2022. [NIKON Z 9, 35mm f/1.4G, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 1000, 1/200, ƒ/1.4, (35mm = 35)]…
I just played around today with photos from November 2011 when my son was doing airborne jumps at Fort Benning in Georgia. Airborne School First Jump of school One of my favorite tools is AI…
I am writing this for those who will find solace in the fact that someone else struggles with life each day, just as you do. Spoiler alert, I don’t have a solution, but just to…
I love how, in the Jewish tradition, memory is not just individual but also communal. For the Jewish people, collective memory flows through ritual and recital. This past weekend the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb has…
photo by: Dennis Fahringer “Choose a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”Confucius Two groups in my life have approached this topic of vocation with one thing in…
