Five Quick Tips for Taking Better Photos
As a professional photographer, one of the questions I get asked a lot is, “Why do your photos look better than mine, even when we are standing right next to each other?” Just a little bit of photography know-how can take your photos from mediocre to marvelous. Here are five quick tips on improving your photocomposition skills so that you can confidently capture better images. #1 – Depth & Framing Landscape photos should have a sense of depth. Having something in the foreground, middle ground and background will give the impression of real depth. Without some of these features, you end...
read moreBusiness Book Club: Success and the Learned Professional
It is not really a new idea that the professional who continually seeks to expand their knowledge and skills is more likely to succeed than their less motivated counterpart. Yet, I’ve often wondered, what does it mean to be a dedicated life-long learner? More specifically, how does an aspiring professional continue to grow and learn so that she may succeed? Frank Bettger’s book, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is a classic read that, in addition to portraying his “from rags to riches” story as a salesman, also conveys the benefits of being dedicated to disciplined...
read moreBusiness Book Club: Would You Like to Achieve a State of Stress-Free Productivity?
In this day-and-age, we’re all juggling so many different responsibilities: a gazillion passwords, emails, hard copies, phone calls, Facebook, blogs, work responsibilities – tasks, files, projects, meetings, reports; home responsibilities – eating, cleaning, family, chores, insurance companies, cleaning out the garage (is that task ever completed or does it just live on the to do list permanently for you too?). So, how do we simplify things in an ever-growing-more-complicated world? By having a simple yet surefire system for helping you keep track of everything that needs to get done...
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