There’s a fine line of distinction — An NFT is not unlike the Title to a parcel of land or a house. Both show ownership of an asset which can be bought and sold. A digital photograph is the representation of a real world object or location. It may have started out is existence as a film…

Marketing Photographs Not for the Timid Is it Quantity or Quality which should prevail? One one hand the quality is essential, but one must have a sufficient quantity in order to engage the largest audience. Quantity doesn’t mean you as the photographer don’t need to maintain your level of quality. You can have both. …

Another Photo Platform — As a long time photographer, I am far more practiced in making image exposures than I am in getting exposure for my work. This means I have thousands of pictures in my archives yet only a paltry audience. My earliest efforts were on B&W Panchromatic film. This was primarily a…

Agenda Driven “Reporting” — Just about everything you see and hear in the media has an agenda behind it. The more you see and hear about a topic the more likely the agenda is being funded and directed by those who will profit from it. For years the media, which include book authors and…

Fortunate circumstances save the day — For the past 6 years I have been deploying a Digital Roadeo Scoring system for local and statewide bus driver Roadeos. These events have been conducted for several decades in some states and test the driving and bus operating skills of professional drivers. Traditionally, the scoring of the contestants has…

Recollections of This Fathers’ Day — There was a time before kitchens had mood lighting and islands with tall stool seats and appliances with digital readouts. The kitchen was the nexus of family life where everyone gathered for a sit-down breakfast together. A table model radio had its place against the wall. An overhead light provided…

How does one break out and benefit from more exposure? — “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.” ~ Rick Blaine referring to Ilsa Lund, Casablanca. Rick ruminates about how the beautiful woman, Ilsa Lund, happened to walk into his life when she walked into Rick’s Café Américain. Rick’s place is…

Shouting in to the wind. — If a Twitter account has a million or more followers it is probably because its owner is some celebrity level persona who get followers merely be existing. These people started out well known and famous and the followers materialize as soon as the account went live. It is important to…

The evolution of a photo-theme — Back when I first published prints of my portraits of manhole covers and other utility disk in the pavement their name was suggested as “Street Coins” by the curator of the Public Works Museum in Baltimore. We were preparing a show of 21 Baltimore themed portraits. …