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The Creative Mix by Craft & Vision

July 19, 2011 by Younes

I highly recommend you check out Craft and Vision’s new ebook “Your Creative Mix” by Corwin Hiebert. This ebook takes an in-depth look at the value of growing your passion for art, honing your creative skills, and finding new ways to connect and share with likeminded people as a way to grow your photography business.

Corwin takes a very refreshing take on developing your photography business…through developing your passion and art…who would have thunk it??? (can’t believe I just wrote that). Stay tuned for my upcoming review on the ebook, but in the meantime, I would encourage you to take a look here.

Special Offer on PDFs
For the first five days only, if you use the promotional code MIX4 when you checkout, you can have the PDF version of Your Creative Mix for only $4 OR use the code MIX20 to get 20% off when you buy 5 or more PDF ebooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST July 23rd, 2011.

Contest
Purchase Your Creative Mix during the discount period and you’ll be entered into a draw for 1 of 3 creative prize packs! We’ve got 3 copies of Todd Henry’s great new book, The Accidental Creative, and we’re bundling it with his Personal Idea Pad. Good luck to all!

Please bear with me

January 24, 2010 by Younes

I just spent most of last week in Brussels for business. Now that I am back, I have barely had time to get anything done as work is in frenzy mode pretty much non-stop these days. So before I disappear again, I have a few things I’d like to share with you:

1- It is winter (in case you haven’t noticed), though a mild one I have to say, so I would like to remind you that I have a couple of posts to help with technical and inspirational issues for winter shooting. Check them out for a quick refresher on winter shooting: Click on the links to Part I and Part II.

2- I have had some pretty amazing experience with the Acratech folks dealing with their GP ballhead, I will be telling you all about it pretty soon, so please check back (I would say next Monday at the latest).

3- If you haven’t done so, please take a look at David DuChemin’s series of ebooks, in a word: outstanding. Whether you are a noob or a seasoned vet, there is bits of info for all of you. The guy is an amazing photographer, teacher and writer, I highly recommend his stuff.

4- I am finalising details for an upcoming trip to Morocco to scout locations for a photo tour in the spring of 2011. Now I am not planning to give a full out workshop this year, but I have spotted some amazing locations. If anyone is interested in coming along for the ride, I am considering opening one or two spots for this year’s trip for a unique individualised experience. Please contact me if you are interested.

5- Last but not least, I will be shortly releasing some limited edition products featuring a few select images from my collection, stay tuned for some details coming very very soon in a theater (well, a computer) near you!

Scrambled – Thank you for your patience

October 19, 2009 by Younes

If you have been reading my blog over the last little while, you have probably noticed a few issues with the images not loading properly, or not at all…I have been the unfortunate victim of a hacker that has made a mess of my website and my web designer and myself are working hard to identify and hopefully fix this problem as soon as possible.

In the meantime, I would like to thank you for your continued support and patience through this “inconvenient” episode.

Cheers,

Younes

Workshop, a success

October 12, 2009 by Younes

My fall colour workshop took place on this past week-end and great fun was had by all (well at least so they say). While my participants are still trying to recover from the beating I laid on them this week-end (wake up at 4am, back at home at 9-10 pm each day), I figured I’d post a picture I took last night on the final shoot, just before we packed and left. I am also still too dazed to tell you about it all, so more to come very shortly (well, “very” is VERY relative here…). Again, a huge thank you to all of you who have made this workshop an awesome and memorable experience for me. Also a big thank you to Jenn for coming down from her far-flung far far away land to help with the organisation, the logistics and the moral support!

Just one more note, I have created a flickr group for my workshop participants (recent, and less recent) to post their favorite shots from the workshops. I will be offering critiques and advice on these photographs as well. Check it out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/yb_workshops/.

See ya!