What to do with a Garage Full of Sugar
Brown sugar, raw sugar, confectionary sugar, sugar in boxes, sugar in bags –both plastic and paper- and sugar in shakers; all stored on my cluttered garage shelving next to paint cans and lawn trimmers. How did such a menagerie of sweet products from the leading name in sugar end up on the same shelf as week killers?
How Great Photos Can Tell a Charity’s Story
All nonprofits yearn for more and better media coverage. Your charity may have the most innovative or successful or tear-jerking story, but without photos, many news-media outlets won’t give that story good placement—especially in the digital age.
White Sands National Park: Like No Place Else on Earth
The drive from El Paso to White Sands took less than a hour and a half, especially when a chronic early riser like myself leaves at 5:30am. My arrival at the park at 6:50am was timed perfectly, missing the guard at the park entrance by 10 minutes – a free visit.
Dallas-Based Williams Financial’s New Visual Website
Any financial website has to be visually boring -not so with the newly designed site for Dallas-based Williams Financial Group. The privately held Dallas-based financial services firm took a fresh creative approach when designing their new site.
Turn Around, Don’t Drown
Central Texas is often called “Flash Flood Alley” because of the frequent, intense storms that turn slow flowing streams into raging rivers that overflow low-lying roadways. The “big ones” seem to happen every decade.
Can Brand Journalism Save Photographers?
There’s a sobering piece in the New York Times about how the business of commercial photography is evaporating and morphing into something entirely new and different. The PR industry is rapidly changing, too, and much faster than many PR people even know.
NY Times Reports Annie Leibovitz in Financial Trouble
Say it ain’t so Joe, if Annie Leibovitz can’t make it as a successful photographer who can? This story by the New York Times points out that there is a vast difference in being a great photographer and being a great photographer with good business sense.
Can Your Newspaper Survive?
Earl Carter is a former photojournalist/photo editor having worked in Kingsport, TN, West Palm Beach, FL and Huntsville, AL during his career.
WeArePhotographers.com Launches New Online Community for Digital Photographers
I am proud to announce my affiliation as a member of the council of photographers for the photo website for digital photographer WeArePhotographers.com.
Shooting Editorial Work Keeps Corporate Work Exciting
Being a product of journalism school, then newspapers and finally People Magazine, I have always had the editorial bug in my system






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