It’s monsoon season in the Sonora Desert, and the cacti are fat with water. Flowers are blooming in bright, flaming red. Birds, bats, and bees swoop through the air while tarantulas, rattlesnakes, scorpions, and fluffy-tailed bunnies play hide-and-seek in the bushes. Bonnie, here, coming to you from our first-ever Storm Chasing workshop in Tucson, Arizona. […]
“So, I have some great shots of people I took during my last vacation. Would I need a model release to submit as stock?” Lately, I’ve gotten a lot of questions like this about model releases. It’s important, so let’s clear up any confusion… If you photograph people (and want to sell those photos for […]
Let’s go back 15 years. The way we processed photos was to drive to the local one-hour photo lab and come back later to pick up our packet of prints to see what we got. There was very little that we actually had to do, other than take the picture. But the digital revolution has […]
I was never supposed to be a photographer. You see, I’m a word gal. Always have been. I knew from the age of 6 that I wanted to be a writer, and more specifically, a journalist – and I worked very hard to achieve that goal, eventually holding two of the most coveted jobs in […]
Why am I wearing a giant, sequined sombrero, you ask? Could we be embarking on a brand new stock photography expedition with Shelly Perry? What AMAZING, mysterious, eerie, and fantastically photogenic event could we possibly be attending as a group of stock photographers? Will there be models dressed in costumes with signed model releases for […]
I don’t usually tell you to buy new equipment like this. In fact, I usually say the opposite – learn with what you have and upgrade later. But I was researching some cameras for a friend online this weekend and I found that many of my favorite brands are selling used for HALF of what […]
A while back, I created a simple “studio” in my little apartment. I wanted to re-share this with you today because it’s so easy, and it’s nice to have a place in your home where you can consistently set up little photo shoots. You don’t need a lot to create a daylight photo “studio” in […]
Getting into stock photography was a game-changer for me. Like many people, I had always taken hobby pictures of family events and travels but never made any serious attempts to share or sell them. They were just sitting on my computer “gathering dust,” only to be looked at when they popped up as a screen […]
Photography can be a job or a passion. It can be work, or it can be fun. But it is for sure a journey. No matter how good you are or how long you have been doing it, photography is forever evolving. There is always something new to learn: new techniques, new equipment, and new […]
I find it somewhat funny, and yet tragic, how life can steal our dreams. If you’re like me, you had plenty of dreams when you were young — there was no limit to your potential, no ceiling on the heights that you could attain, and certainly no one telling you that you couldn’t accomplish anything […]
