@jonbullinger

stanfordbusiness:

Building early and often is key in Professor Jim Patell’s Design for Extreme Affordability course. In the class, Stanford University students learn how prototyping increases the occurrence of great ideas as they design low-cost products that solve tough problems in the developing world. Learn more about Professor Patell and his passion for innovation on CNN’s “The Next List” this Saturday at 11:30am PT. http://stnfd.biz/l7hgG 

joshrosscreative: Great image by Josh Ross.

Yeyo Tequila

The owner of Yeyo and I connected on twitter and I checked out their site. When it comes to still life work I have always specialized in luxury goods and there are a few specialties within that umbrella including bottles and liquid photography. Yeyo as a brand fits perfectly so I asked if he would mind sending me a bottle as I wanted to shoot it. He said yes and asked for my address. It seemed odd how quick and nonchalant he was about sending a nice bottle of tequila to someone he didn’t know off of twitter. Then yesterday when I got the package it all made more sense. He took me literally at my word and sent an empty bottle! That’s fine with me though as that’s all I needed. 

As a photographer there is always something new and unexpected to problem solve and this was no different. I filled it with water and as soon as I backlit the bottle tons of little bubbles showed up. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do as it was definitely going to be an issue. It turns out this is around a second grade level science fact and a bit of googling turned up that I needed to use distilled water. With that out of the way the rest of the shot was fairly straight forward. The only other problem I encountered was a lot of imperfection in the glass. This isn’t actually all that unusual but the nature of the imperfections combined with the frosted glass made for a challenge. Nothing I couldn’t handle but it did require a good amount of time. 

Check out more bottle and liquor photography on my website at http://www.joshrosscreative.com/still_life.php

stanfordbusiness:

Agreed! Action is everything!

Chief Innovation Officer of Citi Debby Hopkins shared what she’s learned as a female entrepreneur at Stanford Entrepreneurship Week.

thesouthamericatours:

Brazillian Beaches

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