Hello everyone! I hope you all had a safe, fun Fourth of July.

Life is busy as ever over here. I’ve been so swamped with photo and design work I’ve barely had time to think about writing, much less do it.

Google Alerts has become my new best friend, every day I get an email telling me what new stuff google has found with whatever search term I decide. Naturally, I decided that my own name would be the first thing I wanted to know about. Since I’ve started using this service, I’ve discovered that there are a hell of a lot of people that have my name. I did find something cool though.

I was interviewed several months back about my use of flickr.com for photography. The author didn’t know if the article was going to be published or not, so I just forgot about it. Well, it did get published and google let me know. How cool is that?

Here is the link

In other news, another out of state model made the long trek to shoot with me. Although we only shot for about an hour she was an all-star and we got a ton of great shots in that short amount of time.

There are several more images, but I can’t decide on my favorites yet…so you’ll have to wait a bit for the rest.

Hope you are all doing well!

-David

Hey everyone,

First let me apologize for the amount of time that’s past since I last wrote here. I’ll be honest with you, that is the fair thing to do.

It has been very rough for me since my uncle died in late April. I’ve struggled to stay motivated and positive. I’m happy to say that’s when it’s been necessary I have pulled it together and my work has not suffered. I am still booking, still shooting, still working… yet my life is definitely different now. Anyone who has lost someone like a parent will understand. It knocks the wind out of your sails a bit.

Life is improving though, and everyday gets a little brighter. In the past month I’ve completed two personal web-projects. One is for my fiancee’s grandfather, a well known cartoonist who wanted a place to show his work. You can see it at www.cochranscartoons.com. The second is a clan site for a group of gamers, it’s got everything from a blog to a forum and online live chat system. Pretty neat stuff. That site is at www.bloodpack.org. I have one more personal web project in the works, but that one isn’t done yet, so you’ll have to wait a bit.

In photography news, I can finally show you some ads my work has been in (now that they’ve actually been printed and run a few times).

I did some shots for a local furniture showroom called Pavilion Furniture a few months back. Another designer here at the agency did the layout.

So, we have that one, which I believe ran in early March. Followed by this next one which ran shortly after.

On top of that development, there were a TON of graduations to go to last month. My cousin Shannon finished high school, so did my future brother in-law Cody. My very own Heather finished her bachelor’s in Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri Columbia as well.

I’m sure I’ll be posting the senior photos I shot of those three soon as well.

For now, let me say thanks for sticking around and checking in here even while I have been absent. It’s only uphill from here. After all, I’m still breathing and I’m still shooting, and those are both very good things.

Until next time friends,

David

Everything works now, as far as I can tell. Email your hearts out!

Thank you for your patience and understanding while I was working towards a solution.

-David

Well ladies and gentlemen, it came to my attention about five minutes ago (by sheer luck) that this giant server move I told you all about before…knocked out my contact form on my portfolio site. That means that  if you used it to contact me, even though it said it emailed me. It didn’t.

So, if you have emailed me in the past month, and not received a response. I am deeply sorry. I am working as fast as I can to resolve this issue.

In the mean time, if you need to reach me please use the contact form here on this blog, or use the phone number you’ll find on that page and call me.

Thank you for your understanding,

David

Pablo Vicente is quite a photographer, and has decided to put me up on his blog. I’m definitely grateful for the press. His blog is very cool and has a lot of resources that I’m sure would come in handy for some of you.

Check it out.
http://digitalpixels.net/

That interview I mentioned the other day went up a bit sooner than I thought it would.

You can check it out here.

Thanks for the publicity guys!

Lots of cool stuff in the pipes folks. Since the launch of the new site several things have happened.

1.) A local college has asked me to come speak at a fashion design class about fashion photography and the fashion industry.

2.) I will be speaking at two middle schools about my career as a professional photographer and designer.

3.) Two of the free photography sessions I was offering were donated to the Missouri Heart Gallery to help foster children find a home (unfortunately I will not be able to show you those photographs, but I will post the gallery tour schedule so you can attend if you like).

4.) The fine folks at Bludomain.com asked to interview me for my new portfolio at www.davidbickley.com. The interview hasn’t been posted yet but I will post a link to that as well so you can all revel in my dorkiness.

5.) Two projects that I worked on at my former agency won Silver Addy’s (an advertising award). One of them was my very first project for that agency (The logo for a company called Purple Tree Technologies, I am also responsible for the web design for that company). One client that I did some web programming work for, took best in show for their trade publication campaign. Kudos to the whole team for their hard work.

6.) My current agency also won two Addy’s, one silver and one gold.

7.) I also gave this blog a face-lift. I will be trying to rotate it out every few months.

Cool stuff all around.

I am a man with plans, and there will be plenty more to announce soon.

Until then, take care.

David Bickley, Professional Photographer

After I started talking about things I would do in the new year. I started thinking “I’m going to do something this year, that I haven’t done in many years”, and as a result I’ve decided to hand out a bunch of free shoots.

So, here’s what I’m doing:

10 free full-day modeling shoots ( 5 random people, 5 of my choosing )

1 free wedding.

“So how do I get this deal David?”

I’ll tell you. In the upper right corner of this website is a button that says “contact me”. You click that and fill out the contact form with the subject line “free photos”, in the message box…tell me a story. Tell me who you are and why you want to shoot with me (yes “because it’s free” is acceptable, I suppose)

I’m going to give this until the end of February. Then I will choose the winners and post them here.

- David Bickley, Professional Photographer

Last time I wrote I said that next time we would talk about new years resolutions. That next time is this time today. I actually have not had the time until now to really think about what I wanted from, or what I would do during this new year. So, although we are halfway into the first month of another year, I figure that now is as good of a time as any to nail it down for certain.

1. I will write in this blog at least once a week.

2. The new sections of my site will be up before the end of February.

3. I will go and take photos for myself at least once a week.

4. I will read at least two new books a month.

I know these aren’t the standard “I will lose a billion pounds” or “I will save more money” types of commitments. Let’s face it, New Year’s resolutions have become something that we all know we won’t do. People say the same thing every year. So, my fifth and final resolution is to actually keep the commitments I have made to myself.

Now, if I could only find the time to get started.

Anyone want to get started inventing a time machine for me?

No?

Think about it.

- David Bickley, Professional Photographer

Well friends, it’s been a bit hectic over here as I’m sure it has been for you all too. The holidays have a tendency to do that. As a result, I am running a bit behind schedule with the rest of the overhaul for davidbickley.com. It will be live soon though, rest assured…

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