Recommended reading

Bedouin with camels. Well I don't know if he was smoking Camels but he certainly had camels with him. Met this chap along the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba while on assignment.

There are some really great blog posts out there and I'd like to refer you to a few which I've enjoyed recently.

Joe McNally is one of my favourite photographers. He's not only good with a camera, he can write very well too. This blog post touched me. Read the story at the end of the post.

Chase Jarvis wrote a post which every editorial photographer should read. This is sound advice. Push your art director.

Comedian turned photographer, David duChemin shares the parallels between being a comedian and being a professional photographer. His portfolio is also well worth a visit too. Lots of smiling faces guaranteed to cheer you up.

I'll be back with more soon. Thanks for the great reception to my previous two posts and the emails. Feel free to comment too!

Cheers,
Paul
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Comments

mmaxutov said…

Thanks Paul for the recommendation!

I have find works where a "piece of myself" in which!I say about a Joe works....;)

Malik

09:48

Macro photography said…

Great recommendations, thanks.

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