After being inspired at a Great Escape Publishing workshop in October 2009 in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, I started to submit photos to stock agencies. At the workshop, I listened to Lise Gagne, Shelly Perry, and Efrain Padro talk about their photo-selling...

At 50 years old, I told friends I was “off to join the circus.” I’d undergone training and got certified to become an International Tour Manager. Now I get paid to escort and teach small groups of people on luxury tours in Europe.  The company I work for books as many...

A photography project is a fun way to improve your photography and expand your portfolio. It involves choosing a new topic each week, setting up the photo shoot, sorting through the photos, editing the best ones, and sharing them with others. And one of the biggest...

Recently I’ve earned nearly $900 in just two and a half months with my stock images (mostly from event photography) and all because I was in the right place at the right time. I was staying with my daughter in Abu Dhabi when the Louvre Museum (a collaborative project...

Spring is in the air… and this time of year brings the chance to photograph one of my favorite subjects—flowers! A big reason why I like photographing flowers so much is because they make the perfect subject for practicing composition. (They are extremely patient...