Author Archives: Ken Kaminesky  As promised, I’m writing from the road and sharing some of the amazing places that I’m visiting by showcasing photos from my iPhone. I spent the last week discovering just how incredibly beautiful Umbria is in Italy and I have a feeling that I’ll be back sometime very soon. Everywhere I looked in Umbria, I…  Success takes hard work, period. One of the things I’ve learned in many years of running a small business is that there’s no guarantee of success, no matter what you do, how well you do it or how talented you think you are. I can guarantee you one thing, though: You will fail in your…  Just moments after I published this blog post, the news broke about Facebook buying Instagram for 1 billion dollars! I’m going mobile! Just under a year ago I purchased my first iPhone after my 6 year old mobile phone finally shed it’s mortal coil. I was hesitant to go with a smart phone at…  When In Rome Rome was one of the most incredible places I have ever photographed. The history, art, architecture, food and so much more make it one of the most interesting cities in the world. In just over two weeks I’ll be back in Rome but just for a quick stop before heading on to…  What you get is not what you see (at first) Like a lot of my photographer friends with an online presence, I get a lot of emails and messages asking me about how I create my images. I can’t really say that I have one set workflow that applies to all images I work on…  Since Munich was the last stop on my central European journey last summer, I fully expected to take it easier than I did at the start of the trip. As so many of my friends know already, I am quite often wrong and this was no exception to that rule of thumb. I began this…  Capital cities like Washington DC are a total playground for photographers like me. In most cases, the buildings in a county’s capital are the most ornate, well preserved and well funded. I guess it makes sense in the way that a capital city is in some ways supposed to be representative of the entire nation….  “A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.” ~Karl Marx It was a dark and stormy… Nah, I’m not gonna go there, even if it was dark and stormy. Truth is that it was an ominous type of weather that was hovering over Budapest on the day I went to photograph the… |
