I don’t know about you, but whenever we travel, we invariably photograph people, their houses, their kids, or perhaps their villages. Of course, they want a copy, but it’s not like the old days when we did Polaroids and could hand one out. Even in today’s world, especially in third-world countries, not everyone has e-mail. So, what to do?
Giving someone a photograph you did is one of the nicest thank you gifts possible if you are not using that image for …
Many people who apply for grants really don’t know what goes on behind the decision-making process. There are some hints here for things to remember and things to avoid should you ever apply for a grant.
First, we were all given a three-inch-fat notebook a couple of weeks before the panel met. These tomes were filled with some 40 applications as well as a covering letter outlining the criteria by which we should make our initial assessments at home. We all read each of the applicant’s description of his/her project and checked out the support materials.
Each of us, as noted above, represented and acted as the expert in a certain field; mine was obviously photography. And each of us got additional materials for the applications in our field, CDs usually, showing samples of the artists’ work.
It took several hours to go through all 40 or so of these applications, and we even …
There is always the obvious to photograph. Fishing boats in harbors, lighthouses standing tall, sunsets and sunrises galore, Motif No. 1 in Rockport, MA … I could go on. There is nothing wrong with photographing all these things, but the trick is to make it yours, to make it different. Or, to …