In this post, I reflect a little on 2019, and wish you and your loved one’s good health and all the best for 2020 and beyond.
Musings
In Conversation with Rick Sammon (Podcast 679)
This week I’m sharing a joint podcast with world-renowned photographer Rick Sammon, covering a myriad of photography topics, and Rick’s 40th book!
Silence is (NOT) the New No! (Podcast 678)
In this post, I talk about why I believe people should stop using silence as the new “no” in business communication.
An Interview with Aaron Nace of PHLEARN (Podcast 675)
This week I bring you an interview with Aaron Nace, in which he shares how he got started as a creative and what led him to create the popular online learning site PHLEARN
Ibarionex Perello on Making Photographs (Podcast 657)
In this post, I bring you a chat between two old friends. I sat down with Ibarionex Perello, with no manuscript, and no overall objective, and we just talked, for an hour.
Martin’s Top Ten Photos for 2018 (Podcast 646)
In this episode I share my personal top ten favorite images for 2018, with the backstory for each photograph.
Yearly Top Ten Selection Process 2018 (Podcast 645)
Having just finished preparing to start a new year and selected my top ten favorite images for 2018, in this post, I share some workflow tips and my thoughts of the process.
Developing Your Style and Self-Acceptance (Podcast 635)
In this post, I discuss some of the techniques I use to save time in post-processing of my images, and how this leads us to form a style, and I talk about self-acceptance as a photographer.
Seven Stages of Contentment in a Photographer (Podcast 627)
This week we explore an idea that has been building in me over the years, which is that as we grow as photographers we go through various stages, and eventually spend less energy lusting over gear and gain more satisfaction and contentment from creating...
Martin’s 2017 Personal Top Ten Photographs (Podcast 603)
Following on from my selection process episode last week, this week I'm going to tell you a little about each of my personal top ten favorite images from 2017. We'll work through my top ten in chronological order, starting from January and working through the year. My...
2017 Top Ten Photographs Selection Process (Podcast 602)
As 2017 drew to an end, I completed my yearly exercise of selecting my personal favorite top ten images from the year, and as has become a tradition, I'm going to share my process with you today. As usual, I started this exercise by creating a Group in the...
Updating Some of My Photography Mantras (Podcast 593)
Over the years, I developed a number of photography related mantras that seemed like a good idea at the time, but have since changed my thinking as my understanding gets better, the technology improves, and as the times change. Today I'm going to update a few of these...