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MUST READ LIST
1) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
2) Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
3) The Alchemist by Pablo Coleho
4) Annie Leibowitz at Work
I'm off to a dinner meeting now with my clients for Thursdays job and very excited about seeing everyone and working on this assignment. We are shooting on location but the location has changed twice in a week so tonight I will wait for confirmation of the location and then go and scout with one of my favorite art buyers.
I also have to work on the music for the shoot as I discovered that my ipod has been misplaced in all my recent travel. No worries however, ipods are easy to get in NYC and I just received a new Zune from Microsoft which is with me now. After this shoot in NYC I'm back in LA for the weekend and then off to Miami to work on the secret project and to give back by working with the Heart Gallery.
It's important to always give back by sharing your talents. The Heart Gallery is an organization that helps place foster children by using prominent photographers across the country to photograph them. The photographs are used to bring awareness and to help find families for these children. Giving back in some way is always something I want to do and I hope my images will help in more ways than I can imagine.
Always Dream Big,
Matthew Jordan Smith
Always Dream Big,
Matthew Jordan Smith
3 comments:
Matthew,
I just want to thank you for the inspiration you gave to everyone at your platform presentation. It is very refreshing and compelling to see you living out your own journey and being so open and real.This was my second time seeing you and both times you made the trip to vegas worth it! I got more useful ideas and notes from your presentation then all the others combined :)
Grace & Peace
Ross James
Hey Matthew,
It was my 1st time seeing you live and wow I definitely enjoyed the platform session .. I learned so much. Thank you for being so generous and authentic. You are a class act. After the session I told my roomate that if this was the only presentation I had attended for all WPPI It would be worth it .... The content the examples and very specific info you gave for each assignement was priceless. I am also very glad to have won the NIK black and white software.. can't wait to try it out :)
All the best and looking forward to see "the secret project" soon:)
Marie-Lyssa
www.marielyssa.com
First of all, thank you for blogging about all your photography adventures, Matthew! It is both informative and inspirational to read, and I always love seeing the work you turn out. :)
The Alchemist definitely belongs on everyone's must-read list...I end up reading through it a couple times each year to remind myself that obstacles and detours in life are sometimes necessary to help us along on the overall journey to our goals.
I can't wait to read Annie's new book!
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