First an Amateur

Stepping outside your comfort zone can be a challenge.  What needs to happen to make progress there?  You can make a commitment outside the comfort zone, but will you shrug it off if the next step seems too challenging?  Hey Randy, did you take a meaningful step to learn enough about Photoshop to improve your […]

Once outside your comfort zone, what will help you improve?  It is easy to say you’re gonna try some new approach in photography, but what will keep you motivated to stick to a new approach when you are likely to stumble?  I’d suggest that you have a partner to work with and have them critique […]

Are you traipsing along in a “comfortable photograph zone”?  Do you often find your photos to be the same-old, same-old?  What are you doing to learn a new approach or skills? It can be easy in a hobby, or profession, to stick with the comfortable approach to getting the job done.  But is that approach […]

If you had the motivation, the money, and the time to work with a challenging mentor, it is likely you would improve your photography fairly quickly.  But most of us don’t have the money.  And even if you are retired, you probably don’t have the time to do the “homework” your mentor would give you […]

March Madness is behind us and the spring season often brings many opportunities for photography.  When I moved into the mountains and began to get serious about photography, I assumed summer would be the best time to grab good photos.  But my regular interaction with experienced landscape photography taught me to see the world around […]

In my last Blog (“How Peer Mentors Might Help”) I described what I have learned about how being involved with a group of peers can have a very positive impact on your personal growth as a photographer. There are clearly some critical characteristics that you need to have: a commitment to improving your photography that […]

In the early ‘80s I changed the regular tests in my Educational Psychology class and added a set of more challenging questions to each test.  Some of the students were troubled while others enjoyed the questions and often hung around after the test to talk with me about the challenge.  After the final exam I […]