I know, I know… We should get outside on Black Friday. So many companies and state parks are urging people to get outside next week instead of shop. And I should be right there with them… I am right there with them. But that said, if you see a sale on cameras or camera gear, […]
Before we head into some of the most photographed seasons of the year, I’d like to point out one of the biggest differences between photos that sell and photos that don’t. It’s this: Good photography is more about what you leave out of the photograph than what you put in it. Take a look at […]
“One day, you’re just doing what you love, and all of a sudden the next day, you can’t get through the checkout line at the grocery store without someone pointing at you and shouting your name.” The woman who said those words knows intimately what it’s like to be famous, what it means to have […]
Making an income doing something you love is one of the best things you can do in life. And it’s never too late to start. Bonnie, on our Great Escape team, does it in her spare time. She takes pictures on nights and weekends and she uses them for spare income. It’s not always easy. […]
Kyle Wagner, the former travel editor at the Denver Post, joined us for our annual Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop where she shared a lot of great industry-insider advice. And I’m going to let you in on one invaluable secret she passed onto attendees. It’s something, Kyle claims most travel writers don’t know about getting published… […]
From hiking in Ireland… to wine tasting in France… to basking in the sun in Aruba… to exploring around Japan… the life of a travel writer is certainly a romantic one. I’m in Denver, CO this week with more than 115 of your fellow readers, and an impressive team of travel writing experts from around […]
You might say that Sir William Henry Perkin was a complete failure. In 1856, while the young chemist was attempting to create a malaria cure, he created the color purple. A bit of unexpected residue from his lab test got on his clothes and died them mauve. He isolated the compound producing the color and […]
