About 15 years ago I approached the Cambridge and District Humane Society with the idea of doing a fund raiser. If people would donate to the humane society I would give them a mini session and a portrait print as a thank you for their donation. That
I’m reading a book right now by Steven Pressfield – “NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T AND OTHER TOUGH-LOVE TRUTHS TO MAKE YOU A BETTER WRITER”. The title would suggest that I’m wasting my time writing this because
You are photogenic. Cookie cutter photography says most people will look good with a short-side loop light set up. To do that you put one light behind the camera with a big umbrella and one light camera left raise it 6 feet off the ground and put another
One of the people I follow on various social media platforms is Author Seth Godin. Among his bestselling books are:
I saw ads for his altMBA course and The Marketing Seminar in the past couple years. I
If telling the story of you, who would you be telling and what would that story be?
I’m John Mitchell and putting that story into a picture or series of pictures is what I do. Before I can do that I need to know you and your audience. The portrait
Bonnie Deekon 1941-2018
It was with a great deal of sadness that I learned last night of the passing of Bonnie Deekon, executive director for the Cambridge and District Humane Society for the past 21 years.
I captured this candid image of Bonnie at this
Saturday June 16th I took a walk up Dickson Street in Galt Cambridge. The road was closed to traffic. Instead of cars there were vendors. It was the Cambridge Celebration of the Arts.
Dickson Street closed for the Cambridge Celebration of the Arts.
It
In a previous blog “Engaging Portraits” I talked about unique lighting for each portrait. In the beginning, near everyone starts out with the same body
How exciting it must be for you to see surface photos of a planet you haven’t screwed up. #MarsLanding
There are no accidents https://t.co/5cUo9igccY
THE END OF PRIVACY? StatsCan will soon require banks to turn over your financial data without telling you about it.
https://t.co/qZsXmphIvW Via @brianlilley. #cdnpoli
