education

Understanding the regulations when it comes to carry-on spare batteries is crucial to a seamless travel for a destination photographers. Here are the battery limits in a nutshell!

Just a few days ago, I taught my eighth workshop in a span of nearly two years. My heart brims with gratitude for the open hearts and enthusiastic minds I’ve encountered throughout this incredible journey. Here is a brief glimpse of the enchantment that unfolded at Castle Leslie Estate in Ireland.

What is a wedding REALLY for? SPiritual awakenings from a wedding in Puglia

Dates: January 16-19, 2024

Dates: April 22-26, 2024

An interview with CanvasRevel on my perspective, anecdotes, and vision, including the pursuit of photography’s potential to make a positive impact on our communities.

By recognizing the theatrical nature of status in art, we may be better able to come to terms with the reality that life and marketing also operate in a similar way.

➡️ Tell more powerful (and truer) stories
➡️ Become more generous in your creativity (=create better Art)
➡️ Enroll more people in your Vision (=Inspire)

Fashion is not about luxury. Hermès never uses the word, nor does Porsche. An in-depth analysis of many fashion/luxury brands reveals a paradoxical absence of the word “luxury”.  The word “luxury” is connected with scarcity and exclusivity, thus being the privilege of a very specific demographic. But clever fashion/luxury brands do not want to limit […]

This is a Special Episode – it is a partial narration of my FREE Pocket book for Second Photographers.

A transformative 15-page pocketbook for anyone seeking to better understand their role as a Second Photographer and leverage their experience to become an exceptional Lead Luxury Photographer.

– Can Ai replace Artists?
– Can Ai replace photographers?
– What does it mean to be an Artist?

Not my usual kind of post, but I decided to share this neat little trick because I have not seen it covered anywhere else. I hope it will save you some trouble! When creating a ShowIt menu that displays when users click your bio link, (sort of like a LinkTree menu, only created by you, […]

US Editorial Experience 2023 for fine art wedding photographers – Oheka Castle & Elkin’s Estate

I am not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. Because they are grand. Because they are overcommitting. And because they put the emphasis on change. They are usually radical. They are after all, “a new beginning”. But a new beginning may not be what we need. Maybe starting from zero every year may be a […]

As has been a tradition for the last three years, on New Year’s Eve I write a post about some of the books that kept me company in the previous year.

Every eligible person in the kingdom hoped to be picked by Prince Charming. No one knew what Prince Charming’s selection criteria were as he went from door to door. The criterion was arbitrary – shoe size. And, somehow, Prince Charming managed to skip all those hundreds of houses where he could have found several perfectly […]

Exclusivity: The bravery to choose to speak to the sensibilities of only a few instead of all. We live in the world of niche. There is a magazine dedicated to water! A blog dedicated to growing succulents! A magazine on raising… emus! And one about miniature donkeys. Something exclusive is not exclusionary. It is razor-sharp […]

Even if your business is not a white-glove type of brand, you still need to define what “Luxury” means to you. In fact even more so. Because when you remove the simplicity of exchanging a product with a large lump of money, then you have to exchange a product with a good story.

In 1948 John Cage conceived a composition that consisted of nothing else but 4’ and 33” of silence, or more precisely, the absence of intended sounds, and only ambient sound.  Execution-wise, it could have been performed by untrained musicians. Innovation-wise, silence is hardly new. There is silence before every concert – all that Cage did […]