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“There’s a frog in the toilet!”

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True story. I know it’s true because my wife and I heard the screams coming from the bedroom upstairs. “There’s a frog in the toilet!” our daughter Danielle belted out. We ran upstairs. And all had a big laugh. I never heard of such a thing. And been coming here, to Costa Rica, for over […]

“SEO was easy when Friends was on TV” and other web optimization lies with Scott Crosby

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I hear it all the time. “SEO doesn’t work anymore. It used to work when Friends was on TV back in the day, but not anymore.” A bigger lie has never been uttered. I know it’s a lie, I seen it in my photography business. And so has Scott Crosby, and his SEO students (He […]

“Pair of spare underwear and two pairs of socks….”

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I love motorcycling. It’s like a disease. But NOT that the big ‘ol biker riding in a huge condo-on-wheels with monkey bars style of riding. I’m more in it for the fun and adventure. That’s me in the image above, riding across Canada summer of 2008 heading to Alaska. I’m more of a “…get on […]

What they will never teach you in photography school…

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If you didn’t know any better…meaning, if you listened to everyone else, including the professors at photography school, you’d think the way to a successful career in photography would involve uber expensive lights, lenses, cameras and complicated software and more. BUT, and this is a big but, what they won’t teach you in school is […]

Sending in a 5 star chef to run a chip stand on the beach…

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I was chatting with a retired RCMP and his wife, who recently got back from 7 days in Las Vegas. They recounted the shows, the casinos, the usual chaos that makes Las Vegas, well, Las Vegas. He pipes up and says: “Rob, you should go there. There were photographers everywhere, taking pictures that we buy […]

Do you have the social confidence of an asthmatic field mouse?

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It’s good to feel confident. I never used to be. In fact, there are times when I am petrified and filled with anxiety. (like when I am about to click the Buy Now button on that new lens from B&H and I hear my wife walking towards me…) Seriously. I was a shy kid. Very […]

Photography, as a career?… “fugget about it”

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Donna asked about speaking at local high schools on career day. This is something I’ve done many a times and I am on mission to save the world from the illusion that there are any careers in photography. (There I am, two months ago, with a group of fifteen year olds in the selfie pic […]