Family first
A bit frantic this past month or so: Lib and I took the 5-kids and dog across Canada to see aging parents – some great contacts made, on both personal and professional fronts. Got older kids settled into university/college for another year. Blew cylinder in the new-to-us Suburban (no thanks to Canadian Tire – more […]
Father/daughter Fishing Trip
A World of Good
A handful of Canadian high-schoolers take one hour a week to DO A WORLD OF GOOD with a sustainable recycling project that helps fund two feeding programs for street kids and educate a home for some 30 abandoned children in Asia. A World of Good from Craig Pulsifer on Vimeo. THE CHALLENGE: Look beyond yourself. […]
Cream of the Crop – PDN/PhotoServe – May
Athletes and artists have this in common: If we are not constantly exercising our creative muscles we quickly start to atrophy. Personal projects are a great way to stay in shape. In my recent drive to keep things fresh, I’ve played with a local studio project, which spawned a lighting tutorial gig, which among other […]
The February Hustle
For many folks, February is a month of winter blues; but over here, we’ve warmed things up in the Old Courthouse by renting a vacated restaurant space and turning it into a commercial photo studio for local businesses. The fun part about personal projects is the way it proves the old maxim that “necessity is […]
Pictures of pictures
Flat art is just a picture of a picture. Simple stuff you’d think. Then you try to do it; to translate a flat, two-dimensional rendition of a 3-D scene onto a flat, 2-D film plane. Ask any musician who has recruited the artistic talents of a best friend to pull together their next-platinum album cover […]
Cream of the Crop – PhotoServe January edition
Over the past 2 months I have come to realize that the edit is just as important to portfolios and galleries as the actual photographs that go into making them. Last month, I began to work with Jackie Ney, now with Pedro + Jackie. She’s a freelance photo consultant out of New York and she’s […]
Santa on a bad day?
Our latest tutorial just hit the webwaves for Photoflex this Christmas that utilizes the extra small OctoDome nxt. I’m pretty stoked about this hexagonal softbox because as the lesson proves, it’s a great little tool that packs up in a very small case to help portraits on the fly. The gig was a combination product/portrait for […]
Featured in Popular Photography: Backstory
NGO WORK – FEATURED IN POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, DEC. 2011 (article text as follows) In 2008, I traveled to Manila with my family and did volunteer work for Action International. One of the NGO’s members was writing a story on the “Ten Worst Jobs in Manila” for a street publication called The Jeepney, which focuses on […]
Watertight: Featured on Fstoppers
Was blessed to meet Patrick Hall (@phfactorblog) on Twitter this week. Patrick is the Co-Founder of Fstoppers who after a triptych of tweets, had scripted a short but sweet ‘graph about our recent video: Watertight. I’m always amazed by how much can happen in strings of 144 characters or less. Watertight from Craig Pulsifer […]
Spoonful of Sugar
“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” ~ Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964) Oddly enough, the opposite is true in Marikina, Philippines. There, medicine is being delivered to help children regain health and appetite, thanks to the work of small, non-profit agencies, like Action International . Typhoon Ondoy hit the Philippines in September, […]
Sunset over Dolarog Wharf
El Nido, Philippines – It was amazing how fast it set, the sun. My back was to the shore as I wound my way through coconut treed lawn of the Dolarog. It was dark inside our hut, but an orange glare of light on a polished teak table drew my eye back out to the […]
