Glamour by Jay Kilgore

The end of an era Back in 2009 I had reached out to Photogenic because I wanted sponsorship with them. It should be noted that I was in talks with Buff, but he had his racist outburst and that is...

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Meeting of the Masters the aftermath Meeting of the Masters the aftermath. This is the final post on this event and my final thoughts on it. The workshop was done, everyone was on their planes an...

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Meeting of the Masters Day III Meeting of the Masters Day III featured Joe Edelman speaking in the morning. Edelman spoke about modeling and his idea of what types of images belong in a portfolio...

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Meeting of the Masters; Day II If you missed the Meet and Greet and Day 1, see it here. This is day two and when it gets wild! Meeting of the Masters Day II was when the wildness happened!  The ...

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Meeting of the Masters Meeting of the Masters; I’ve waited a long time to tell this story. I had to wait to get over some personal feelings of frustration, disappointment and hatred towards som...

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Minnesota Mentality If we go back 23 years to when I started on my path to becoming a “Legit” professional photographer, we must go back to Minnesota and the “Minnesota Mentality”. This i...

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Retouch or Edit? Retouch? or Edit? Do you know the difference? Did you know there’s a difference? So now that I’m back into photography and slowly getting into the swing of it all, it’s daw...

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Shootouts and workshops It has dawned on me that lots of people don’t know the difference between a Shootout or Workshop. I pretend to not have it drive me crazy, but I’ll be honest, and want...

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Where have I been? Where have I been? If you’ve been a long time viewer of my blog, you will notice that I’ve been gone for a long time. I took a break from photography for personal reasons. ...

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Being a black photographer in today’s climate means a lot of things. It only took about 440 years before America finally woke up and realized it is mistreating some of her citizens, but I guess...

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