"I want to get serious about photography. What camera should I buy?" I get this question all the time, whether it's from friends or from people in online photography groups. Until recently, I would ask the person a few questions about the kind of work they wanted to do, make recommendations based on the answers, and guide them toward any special equipment that was applicable … [Read more...] about The real reason you shouldn’t start out with a fancy camera
The theme for today’s 500 words challenge is goals. Goins suggests writing down your goal for the challenge and setting up a plan for how you’re going to do that. Since I already covered most of that in yesterday’s post, today I thought I’d talk about what qualifies me to talk about personal transformation. I discussed my longstanding interest in life’s big questions in a … [Read more...] about My qualificaitions
In a way I’ve already been doing something like this. In fact, this challenge was the inspiration behind my earlier commitment to start writing regularly on this blog. But since the person behind this challenge is relaunching it for 2017, this seems like a good time to commit publicly to going through it. You may be familiar with the work of Jeff Goins, a successful writer … [Read more...] about My commitment to the 500 words challenge
This might seem to contradict my recent post about making a living from creativity. But, I always reserve the right to change my mind. I’m not completely contradicting what I said earlier. More like adding a caveat. First off, I’m not hatching a plan to make photography my primary source of income. That would be a complete contradiction of my earlier post. But I … [Read more...] about I want to do photography professionally and I’m terrified
At the end of the last installment, I’d decided to give Judaism one more go. The closest congregation to my home is actually Reform, so I figured I’d try them out first. While they seemed like nice people, it just didn’t feel like home. By then I’d been around this merry-go-round enough times to realize there was no point in trying to force anything (good advice in all areas … [Read more...] about How I ended up Jewish, part 5: finale (for now)