by Julian | Mar 19, 2020 | FREELANCERS, TIPS
With many more of us working from home than ever before, I thought it might be helpful to share some of the things I’ve learned from my nearly 20 years living and working as an independent freelancer having spent all of that time working from a home base. The...
by Julian | Mar 10, 2020 | CONFERENCES, EVENTS, FREELANCERS, TIPS, TRADESHOWS, VR
Today I’ve been invited to speak as a guest with Sue Smith for a show on the gig economy that will air on the national broadcaster in Canada (CBC), and as I prepared my notes for the show I started thinking about the impact of the coronavirus COVID-19 will have on...
by Julian | Apr 5, 2019 | FREELANCERS
When I started out as a freelance photographer, that’s all I was thinking of doing, and clients didn’t expect me to offer more. I was a sole practitioner, offering a specific, in-demand service and that worked well for me and my clients. But much as I love...
by Julian | Jan 25, 2019 | FREELANCERS
Active, Portfolio, Archive, Delete (& Personal) I’m in the process of exhaustively culling my vast horde of images taken over the many years that I’ve been living and breathing photography as my profession and passion. I’d much prefer many other ways to spend my...
by Julian | Jan 10, 2019 | ART, FOR CLIENTS, FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS, FREELANCERS, PHOTO GEAR & GIZMOS
I took a picture every day with a Fuji Instax Mini 90 camera throughout 2018. My self-imposed conditions were simple: take only one a day and use it no matter what. I mostly stuck to this, though due to both technical and user failures on some occasions the resulting...
by Julian | Aug 27, 2018 | FREELANCERS
In case you missed my announcements here, here, or elsewhere on the internet, in between working for clients, working on getting clients, and working on keeping the clients I have happy to continue working with me, I’ve written and just released a book for...