Feb
11
Not too long ago I had a creative/personal breakthrough with my work. In short, it amounted to my snapping into clarity about what I wanted from my creativity, my profession, and ultimately, my life. A path to this subsequently emerged, and I've revealed the thrust of these epiphanies--without eloquence--on this blog over time.In a wave or recent email and Facebook inquiries on this sort of stuff, I was tempted put together a summary post on...
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Jan
20
The images surrounding the first African American US President, Barack Obama, will indisputably be an important part of the historical record of our country, and, likely, the world. I believe it’s this new era of photography--both in the creation of images and how they are spread--that has brought us a more interesting, diverse, and never-before-experienced range of images and access to them. And setting campaign platforms aside, it's a worthwhile endeavor to examine the images...
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Jan
19
If you've watched any videos on this blog, you should watch this one. Whether you're observing the holiday from home or the office, I recommend that you turn up your speakers a few clicks, gather some family members, friends, or colleagues together and watch this 17 minute video.RSS readers can catch the video here.--
Jan
07
The year was 1968. My uncle was killed in Vietnam, and this was the camera that he carried into war.But this isn't a sad story, nor is it the end of a story, it's a sort of a cool new beginning--not for my uncle Rick unfortunately, but it is for this little camera.Enter stage right: Seattle’s largest cultural festival, Bumbershoot. Hundreds of bands, theater, performance, food, it’s a 3 day festival in September. Very cool....
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Jan
07
If you follow me on Twitter, you likly already saw this from my morning tweet, but I couldn't resist posting it here as well. It's just too unbelievable not to share. This photo (left) is of a functioning 4x5 camera made from aluminum, titanium, brass, silver, gem stones and a genuine 150-year-old human skull. Seriously. It seems that the maker of these camera, photographer Wayne Martin Belger is a complete purist and only willing to...
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Dec
19
People once said, "Digital sucks, I'm sticking with film." People once said, "I'll create a library of images (stock? almost forgot it existed...), retire young and live off my royalties." People once said, "The sky (cloud?) is falling." People (me) have said, "This is the most interesting time in history to be a photographer." It's a known fact that more photographs are being used, licensed, sold today than ever before in history. Some photographers are...
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Dec
07
I recently synthesized -- stumbled upon, really -- a great response to a question I've been asked at least 10,000 times. It's a simple question on the surface, but I've always seen the answer to be so complex.Until now.Q: "Chase, how do I 'make it' as a photographer?"Prior to today, I either tried to respond with some enthusiastic bullet points about passion, creativity, and hard work; or I lamented that I didn't have a good...
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Dec
05
Many of you know David Hobby, aka Strobist. He and I are dear friends. We talk often. And we’ve been talking for several weeks now about free photography. Free? Huh? Whadaya mean FREE?! FREE? This is where some of you may freak out.Ya, I mean free. Not as in licensing photographs you’ve already taken, but as in taking pictures for someone's use, in exchange for zero money. A project, a test, an assignment. I’ve been...
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Nov
27
http://www.viddler.com/simple/7a644389/In May of this year I was invited--along with photo Illuminati compadres David Hobby (Strobist) and David Nightingale (Chromasia)--to Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai, UAE to give a little chat to some photographers. The seminar was called "Making the Web Work for You". If you're at all thinking of blogging, video, the web, or sharing information, then you will pick up a thing or two, guaranteed. Keep in mind, it's almost entirely unedited. But there...
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Nov
20
"Sure the economy is in the outhouse, but I can't help but fixate on the tremendous opporunity that awaits the saavy photographer or digital artist who is well-equipped to address the next digital photography era." So I have this thought above, and it's pinging around my brain this morning over a split-shot Americano, when a friend flips me this great piece by a Forrester-Researcher-turned-social-technologist named Peter Kim called "Comments on The Next Digital Era". Turns...
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