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Two Questions
There are two critically important questions I offer to any talent in our industry as they set out to do whatever it is that they are trying to accomplish. The first question is… HOW WILL YOU KNOW WHEN YOU’VE MADE IT? It is essential to clearly articulate what success...
30 Under 30 – Challenge Setting and Adventure Living
Yesterday on November 12, 2012 I started a completely new project in my life. Or a whole bunch of projects. 30 to be exact. You see, yesterday started the countdown of the 30 days leading up to my 30th birthday. Inspired by my new friend Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness, I...
November 2012 Featured Talent Interview with Kelsey Byers
The James Patrick Photography team was recently in Las Vegas during the Olympia 2012 event when we had our first opportunity to meet and work with Texas-based fitness talent Kelsey Byers. In the middle of a high energy photo shoot we were able to hear her story in...
Steve Kamb and the Rebellion
Steve Kamb is a nerd. How do I know that Steve is a nerd? Perhaps it is the fact that one of his happiest memories as a child was Christmas morning in 1989 when he was gifted the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Maybe it has something to do with his addiction...
What models can do about bad turn around
In response to a recent blog post I did, I received an e-mail from a subscriber saying: I have been working with photographers who constantly claim that they are the best in the industry they are in; yet their turn around time to get me the images is terrible. How can...
Don’t Work Too Hard
I had just gotten back from working in Las Vegas for four days. My main computer just crashed and I was already turning around to leave town again to do a photo shoot for a magazine cover. I was fighting off a very difficult cold virus and was running off of just a...
October 2012 Featured Talent Interview with Holly Bricken
I had the pleasure of meeting and working with fitness talent Holly Bricken as she took a road trip to move herself from Texas to San Diego, CA. The shoot was a stellar success and since then I've had the opportunity to have several conversations with Holly about her...
James Patrick Photography Offers New Service
I am proud to announce that James Patrick Photography will now be offering video services to our clients. For the past few years we have worked alongside videographer Max Anderson as he has developed a large number of our in house video efforts. Max will now be...
Anatomy of a Fashion Shoot
My colleague and fellow photographer Jason Black and I recently had the oppotunity to work with 202 Magazine based out of Arizona on their recent fall fashion editorial spread. The project stretched our creative genes as we had to work quickly to create six different...