The business side of photography
My annual look back at some of the photo purchases I made in 2019.
This is a well-made roller bag and most things about it are quite good except:
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This is another view-from-my-office photo.
Imagine if a restaurant charged for its meals based only on the time it takes to prepare the food. What if clothes were priced based only on the time it took to sew that piece of clothing? How about a grocery store that priced by the hour: for example, you get all the groceries you can grab for a rate of, say, $200/hour.
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Today I received a request from a small company to do a group photo. They wrote that their staff has changed and they needed an updated group photo of their seven employees.
The email said the group must be posed in a single row, everyone evenly spaced apart and no one overlapping the person next to them.
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This picture has nothing to do with this post. It’s just another view-from-my-office photo.
Are you thinking of buying new photo gear or other expensive business items? If so, December offers a couple of tax benefits.
Many businesses, especially sole proprietorships, have their fiscal year match the calendar year because it makes doing your income tax easier. If this describes you then December purchases might be beneficial.
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A couple weeks ago, the old iron scow stuck in the Niagara River above the falls made international news. The boat had been stuck in place since 1918 but a storm on October 31, 2019, dislodged it.
Most of the headlines were about the boat breaking free and moving closer to the edge of the Horseshoe Falls. All very dramatic. Niagara Falls . . . step by step, inch by inch:
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I do real estate photography for construction companies that build or renovate homes in the greater Toronto area. Often I photograph a home before construction has begun and then return weeks or months later to picture the finished work.
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This is another view-from-my-office photo.
It was obvious while photographing some of the federal election campaigns over the past two weeks that news media turnout has drastically dropped over the past three federal elections.
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