The Annapurna Himal before dawn. 57 second exposure @ f11
Things have been quiet here over the past couple of weeks but things have been far from quiet elsewhere. Busy, busy, busy best describes life at the moment. I will endeavor to get back to a more regular blog posting schedule over the next week or two but for the meantime here’s a little update on various happenings.
While in Nepal I spent some time photographing for the Esther Benjamin’s Trust, an NGO that works in the field of human trafficking. I’ll have some photos to share with you from that (hopefully next week) but I can say that I was pretty happy with the work created that day and it was a pleasure to work with the organization.
Still on the NGO side of things, I also provided some work to the Asia Foundation. I believe they’ll be publishing something from it today sometime so look out for it. I’ll post a few shots from that series in the next couple of weeks as well.
Since returning from Nepal, other than editing the above-mentioned photographs, I’ve been busy teaching at Taipei Photo School. A few new students have come on board and it’s been great to meet them and help them in their own creative journeys. I’m looking forward to the follow up classes with the students I’ve already worked with, and the initial class for another student who’s booked for next week.
My cameras have mostly been sitting in their dry box for the past couple of weeks although they did come out the other day for a business portrait session for a couple of guys who are about to launch a new company. We got good weather for the outdoor shoot and came up with a number of good ideas. The resulting photographs are very strong and should help give them a good professional image when they launch their new venture.
More business portraits are in the cards next week as well which will see me shooting lawyers. I’m looking forward to it as it’s a guy I’ve known online for a while but have never actually met in person.
Marketing is an essential part of a freelance photographers life and a bit of time has been dedicated to that recently. A batch of print promos went out the door the other day to a selected group of photo editors that I want to work with, and an email promo went out this week. One of the keys to success here is getting your work in front of the right people, and half the battle is knowing who the right people are. Research, research, research is the key.
Finally there are a couple of other things in the works that you should hopefully see and hear about later this month. I’m excited about them and am eager to get them out but patience is a virtue.
