Here’s a nice surprise I got today via 2nd Day UPS: the May 2006 Shutterbug Magazine, with an extensive quote from me in Maria Piscopo’s Business Trends column, titled "The Business of Travel Photography."
"For new technology marketing, Doug Plummer (www.dougplummer.blogs.com/daily) gets the most out of using the Internet. He says, "I think marketing is getting more casual in terms of portrayal of image and what some clients are looking for. Case in point: my primary creative outlet lately has been my daily photoblog. It is the opposite of a refined, thought-out, structured portfolio. There’s no sexy titanium case. There’s no fancy Flash code. I just photograph every day. I pick one to post. It’s just one photograph after another, day after day. I printed and bound the first hundred days of my photoblog, and started showing it as my portfolio. One designer completely keyed into what I was doing and she’s someone who has been on my "hit list" for years. I think what the blog shows is my truest photographic sensibility, my daily response to the world. Formatting is less important in this environment. I think the image really is the message. That I’ve kept it up, and at a high level visually, speaks to a level of discipline and commitment that is the meta-message about how I’ll act with a client. The right people are going to get it."
The article also included two of my photographs from Israel. The piece is not up on the Shutterbug website yet—you’ll have to visit an analog newsstand to see it.
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