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#232 Creative business advice from Daphne

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My tiny photography business needed help! Selling my photography and services required better promotion… I was sad to discover my fine photos didn’t sell themselves!

In the pursuit of business survival I started looking for help in the worlds of:

  • web opportunities
  • promotion ideas and…
  • writing skills

Help!

Luckily, I found editor Daphne Gray Grant‘s writing newsletter geared towards “Helping corporate writers work better, faster.” Her free weekly newletters have been a fantastic and easy way to help improve my writing for proposals, emails, blog posts and newsletters!

Creative Business Ideas

Recently, Daphne delivered a newsletter from a business perspective: “How to make money writing in a tough economy.” And her points are very good – not only for writers, but ANY self employed, creative small business. If you aspire to run a small creative business or are already earning $ at your creative discipline Daphne’s work is worth reading!

Small business is tough:

Small business is tough Business obstacles

Success!

I was fortunate enough, early on, to find the help needed to keep my little business in business. There were some very tough years! Many people misjudge what is required to succeed at a small creative business.

Better Business Skills

In that vein we started the Creative Business Seminar to provide realistic, practical ideas and networking opportunities to help people succeed in their creative small businesses.

Success Success! 

Thanks Daphne!

#230 More Student Successes!

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We sometimes hear from past students on our workshops and always like to trumpet their successes!

Pan Am Cup Field Hockey 2009

Yan Huckendubler has taken two sports photo workshops with HarryNowell.com. His first session involved the U20 World Cup Soccer Championships in Canada. Our students were granted media passes and sideline access to a world cup match. On Yan’s second workshop we had media access to a pro hockey game.

Pan Am Cup 2009

Yan also has a passion for field hockey and spends time helping the Canadian Team at International events. He is covering the Pan Am Cup in Chile supporting the team by photographing and managing the web site. He recently emailed some of his photos for the blog:

Pan Am Cup Field Hockey 2009

Pan Am Cup Field Hockey 2009

Nice work Yan – great shots from a challenging event!

Coming soon we have two more sport photo workshops:

  • Sessions Sports Photo Workshop – June – we cover the world of cycling photography over a month – details comings soon
  • Polo Sports Photo Workshop – August 29, 30, September 2nd – test your sports skills alongside thundering horses!

Stay tuned and send a big cheer for Yan’s continued successes!

Harry

#229 Weekend Fun

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This weekend involved a little work – including prep for our March Exposed! newsletter – but allowed for some relaxed down time.

Saturday morning involved perhaps the last outdoor hockey game of the season. We played on the beautifully smooth ice of the Gatineau River.

Some photos – I was ‘scolded’ by my team for deserting the team to take some photos:

hockey photo

The Breakaway

hockey photo

The competiton

hockey photo

Reid sets up the team photo

Thanks Reid and Becky for organizing!

And thanks, winter, for all the fun.

Tomorrow, student photos of Field Hockey from the Pan Am Cup in Chile.

#228 A Networking Story

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On Tuesday I mentioned I would tell the story of HarryNowell.com getting free local promotion.

The Story

Our community has a fantastic email based bulletin board that gets sent out to thousand(s) of local people. I often post notes of community interest with links to my blog for additional info and photos. It’s good for the community and good for exposure.

A couple of weeks ago an anonymous person remarked on the community bulletin board: “I am tired of that photographer guy posting on the community board…” I was mortified.

Support

The next day there was glowing support for me and even scorn for the anonymous poster! That was just the beginning – two more full days of supportive postings came in through the community board and email.

It was heart warming!

Harry Nowell seld portrait

… And then the phone rang. Chelsea author, Phil Jenkins, called to inquire about the whole debackle. Phil writes a regular column in the local newspaper – the Low Down – highlighting artists in the area. He wrote an article on three prominent working photographers in the region – myself, J David Andrews and Mike Beedell.

All good news!

The only downside was the paper cropped an important part of the photo I sent in. That doesn’t reflect well on my work. Sigh. The media always has the last word! The full photo:

ChelseaGallery.ca

All in all it was a pretty neat week watching how the media works. And it was all free!

#227 Iceland Dispatch

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Another dispatch with photos from Kent Larus Bjornsson who will be leading us to his secret spots on the Iceland Photo Tour this summer:

“According to the British Newspaper the Economist, Reykjavik is now one of the cheapest cities in Western Europe. Just last year Reykjavik was the fifth most expensive city in the world. With the fall of the Icelandic kronur it has fallen to number 67 on the list. The only city in Western Europe that is lower is Manchester UK. What are the most expensive cities? Tokyo and Osaka, followed by Paris and Copenhagen.

Iceland Photo Tour

Reykjavik by the Arctic Ocean

The lower prices are great for visitors but not great for people that earn wages in kronur. The kronur has recovered somewhat so now is the time to visit Iceland. Even the rock band Pearl Jam is thinking of visiting and doing a concert!

Iceland Photo Tour

Reykjavik

Subscribe to the daily news email service to keep up with what is going on in Iceland.”

Thanks Kent!

#226 In the news

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I am being featured in our local newspaper “The Low Down” this week in a regular feature by local writer/musician Phil Jenkins, known for books like An Acre of Time.

While the newspaper is small, exposure is always good and I appreciate both the newspaper and Phil for approaching me about the feature.

There is a very interesting story behind this – I will elaborate on Thursday! Tomorrow, another dispatch from Kent Larus Bjornsson from Iceland.

Thanks Phil and Nikki.

Phil Jenkins

Phil Jenkins performing at a community celebration

#224 Craft Conference Review and Networking

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 Last week I mentioned I was presenting Photography for Art Promotion at the Craft Council’s Craft Conference in Ottawa. It was a fun event with sessions on:

  1. grant writing from the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council
  2. navigating the Gallery World with reps from LaPai Gallery
  3. Photographing art work for promotion

The participants were full of questions and ideas. Meeting others in similar fields is an important way to learn and make sure you are on the right track in your field!

Some of the fun from the event:

Ontario Craft Conference

Karina Bergmans, Erin Robertson and Cynthia O’Brien enjoy the show opener!

Craf Conference - Emma Quin, Sara Washbush

The Craft Council’s Emma Quin and Sara Washbush open the conference.

Craft Conference

Valerie – OCC Membership Services and Harry

#222 – New Photo Workshops

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We have some new photo workshops developing:

1. Sport Photo Workshop
August 29, 30, September 2, 2009.
We have secured the opportunity to be official photographers at a fast paced polo competition. Test your field sport photo skills as galloping horses and fast paced action challenge your cameras.

Peanut Cup Polo

2. Sport Sessions Photo Challenge
June, 2009.
Test yourself as we cover three cycling based sports photography challenges followed by a critique session. We will cover evening bike crit races and techniques of motion.

Bike Crit race

More details coming soon. Stay tuned! Check our workshops listings.

Yesterday‘s half speed work day still filled up quickly – I am happy to report the skiing was fabulous and the dogs had a ball.

#221 Rest

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It was a busy week last week – working right through the weekend. This week is looking busy, too. That’s a good thing.

So to make sure the batteries stay charged today is a half speed work day. I will be telemark skiing at Camp Fortune for an hour or two and snowshoeing with two dogs for an hour in the afternoon.

I have learned the hard way that fun time off is essential to any healthy business. I have learned many things the hard way! In that vein we developed the Creative Business Seminar – next session in April – where you’ll find many practical ideas about business that you won’t find in text books.

We presented “Photographing Artwork for Promotion” twice at the Ontario Craft Council‘s conference this weekend. It was well received. A review is coming soon.

But for now I have a very important meeting with my skis and some snow:

telemark ski photo at ChelseaGallery.ca

Telemark ski photo @ ChelseaGallery.ca shot on Kodak EIR infrared slide film!