by NIck Kelsh | Apr 12, 2024 | Blog
Well, it seems that recently my regular HTPYL work has been eclipsed by a big round plateful of other stuff—you know, the usual litany… some health stuff, family stuff, a couple of presentations to prepare, conferences to attend, other travel, etc. But the...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog
Today is Martin Luther King Day. It is the only holiday that’s been designated a national day of service. It’s intended to be a day on, not a day off. Organizations large and small and individuals around the country take time on this day to volunteer to do...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 30, 2023 | Blog, iphone shoot
It really is a basic and profound question in photography. Should I shoot a horizontal or should I shoot a vertical? Every situation is different, of course. And what you have in your mind in terms of composition often dictates what you end up doing—horizontal or...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 28, 2023 | Blog, iPhone Burst
Here’s an iPhone function that is incredible technology and super useful. It’s also a little frustrating (OK, more than a little frustrating) if you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s the Burst function. Burst means you hold the shutter button down and it shoots 10...
by NIck Kelsh | May 27, 2022 | Blog
Consider me among the wordless in this country who can’t make any sense of what’s happened in the last couple weeks. It’s hard to disassociate what we do here with photography and pictures of families, especially children, and not be moved to our...
by NIck Kelsh | May 16, 2022 | How to pace your photos
Last weekend I viewed a set of photographs that showed up on my iPhone—and beautiful photographs they are! But there was something about the pacing of this photo story that caused me to second guess some presentation decisions The New York Times made that we all face...
by NIck Kelsh | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog, Top 50 2021
Click to view photos I am proud to present How to Photograph Your Life’s TOP 50 FAN PHOTOS OF 2021. Each New Year we’re proud to take a good look back at our top Fan Photos of the past year. This annual celebration of the best of the best of our Fan Photos of the Day...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog
Click to view photos As always, it was a pleasure to compile the best photographs of the year from the thousands of pictures you folks have submitted to my Fan Photo of the Day on our How to Photograph Your Life Facebook page. Finding the top 50 photographs and then...
by NIck Kelsh | Mar 29, 2020 | Blog
(If you’ve landed here from my email, you can skip ahead to where that message left off.) I wish I were the person who could come up with the words that would make everything better for all of us. Sadly, getting from here to better is going to be a long haul,...
by NIck Kelsh | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog
Happy Valentine’s Day! I was thinking about what to write today, other than “I love you for being part of our wonderful How To Photograph Your Life community!” and “Be Mine Forever! ; ) (Of course I do love you for being part of our...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
1. Share your photographs more creatively. That is, share with people that you would never have shared with in 2019 or before. You are surrounded by them by the way. The man who is painting your kitchen, the folks at the flower shop, the doctor who did your knee...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 31, 2019 | Blog
Click to view photos I am proud to present How to Photograph Your Life’s Top 50 Fan Photos of 2019. Each New Year we’re proud to take a good look back at our top Fan Photos of the past year. This annual celebration of the best of the best of our Fan...
by NIck Kelsh | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized
I know that many of you have a big night ahead of you, so for those of you that would like some quick tips I’ve put them right here on top: ◆ There’s the all important, I think, full length shot of the costume. Even if it’s only the last Spiderman costume that...
by NIck Kelsh | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized
Yes, I’m long past due letting you know what’s going on in our brave new How to Photograph Your Life world. I almost feel like I owe everyone I’ve ever known an apology, but not quite. I’ve vanished for while because I needed to, it’s that simple. Big stuff has been...
by NIck Kelsh | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized
Big changes for our boys this year as we’re moving our family from Philadelphia to the beautiful Catskill Mountains… This year Teddy starts Middle School and Alexander starts High School. And the traditional Back to School photo session got just a...
by NIck Kelsh | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized
We’ve talked about doing it for years and we’re finally taking the leap. The Kelsh family is moving to the Catskills in New York. The boys started school in Delhi, New York this week. Yes, that’s right, past tense, as in Wednesday.. This is a big deal for us and has...
by NIck Kelsh | Jul 20, 2019 | Blog
Fifty years ago today on July 20, 1969 I started my second photography business. I know the exact date not because I kept incredibly accurate business records, but because of the unforgettable historic subject. My business started on the day man landed on the moon. On...
by NIck Kelsh | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
I’m no sports photographer, but as a photojournalist and a baseball dad, I have to say I’ve photographed my share of baseball games. Because I like to contribute to our wonderful Mt. Airy Baseball community I’ve photographed way more than my own...
by NIck Kelsh | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog
Me: Hey, Anne, what’s going on for Father’s Day?Anne: How would I know? You’re not my father.That conversation actually happened this morning. And then there was this: Teddy told me that for Father’s Day “mom” was taking him to the sporting goods store and buying him...
by NIck Kelsh | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’m not sure I quite remember a twist like this one on our HTPYL page but we’ve been going so long at this point it’s probably happened several times; one photographer inspires another photographer inspires another photographer and so on. Come to think of...
