Twenty-five years ago today, on a chilly blue-sky day in Florida, the space shuttle Challenger was launched carrying “teacher in space” Christa McAuliffe and six other astronauts. Seventy-three seconds later, the shuttle exploded taking seven lives and throwing America’s space program into disarray. Little did I know as I watched the disaster unfolding on the [...]
Decisive Moments and Faces My post yesterday got me thinking about sports photography and how it has informed everything I do as a wedding photographer, portrait photographer and commercial photographer. (Did you like how I worked the keywords there? I’m a blogging machine) It really comes down to two things: Decisive moments and faces. I [...]
I have to admit I’m not Wisconsin native, so I don’t bleed green and gold. But I married into a Packer family, so it rubs off a little. What I am is a big fan of sports in general and of sports photography. The Packer victory got me thinking about shooting sports which is something [...]
So by looking at about 600,000 other photography blogs and web sites it appears that I have to put some sort of descriptive, yet annoyingly repetitive tag line at the beginning of each post. Apparently this helps boost my Google ranking which is the Holy Grail of having a web site. I find it annoying. [...]
So I figured it might be fun to show a few photos of our new downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin studio from early in the construction process. I started thinking about opening a studio location last spring and I knew that if I was going to do it I wanted to do it in downtown. I [...]
Google Analytics says that hits on my site are up more than 14,000 percent this month. That seems good.
This process of getting the new site up and running has taken a whole lot longer than I planned, but the wait and effort are starting to pay off. Thanks to Mike Paulus for all his work setting up the site and tweaking things as we have gone along. If you’ve found this blog then [...]
I’m pretty sure I’m the last photographer in the western hemisphere to start a blog. I’m okay with that since I’m not sure I have much to say. I’m not as young, perky and excitable as most photographers these days. I’m not likely to speak of “kiddos” and use lots of smiley face emoticons. I’m [...]
