Crowd Soresing

Background I’m a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (AIP) and I am, believe it or not, proud of the things I learned there, the instructors I was taught by, and the folks that I graduated with. I say believe it or not because these days AIP is broken. As is most of the rest [...]

A Word From Our Sponsor (disguised as a blog post)

I just have to share this with you all. I have a google alert set up with “need, photography, Pittsburgh” and I don’t normally get a lot of good results for that but sometimes it does provide leads so I keep it active. The other thing that happens occasionally is that it brings back interesting results like [...]

The Decade in review

This is the oldest photo of myself that I have easy access to, it’s from 2006 and was shot by Marcy Echoltz at the Art Institute. This was taken in maybe Jan. or Feb. so it was close to mid-decade (give or take a year). Why was I looking for old portraits of myself and [...]

Growing Pains

I’ve been meaning to write this for a few weeks now but I’m just getting around to it. I had the chance to look at the work of some photography students at the Art Institute and tell them what I liked, didn’t like, and ways to improve on their work. It was a lot of [...]