by NIck Kelsh | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog
We are so excited to relaunch our live workshop program with a top favorite destination!! Have you ever considered taking a photography workshop? It could be the best thing you ever do for your photography, your confidence, and your soul! WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW TO SEE...
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 | 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...
by NIck Kelsh | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog
I start the new year now with my long anticipated (and twice planned) knee replacement surgery behind me— or as those of us in the business like to call it TKR. That’s Total Knee Replacement. Somewhere some doctor rightly concluded that putting the word surgery in the...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 23, 2018 | Blog
For the holidays this year, and because a lot of you have asked for it, I’ve resurrected the NICK KELSH RADIO PICTURE SHOW. (For you How to Photograph Your Life veterans that’s the NKRPS.) For those of you that don’t know, the NKRPS is essentially a video...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 21, 2018 | Blog
”Twas 4 days before Christmas, when all through the houseAll the creatures were bustling, yes, even the spouse! The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were antsy and tossed in their beds...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog
Other people’s medical problems quickly become rather boring, but last week I had a little surgical hiccup so I happen to find this story utterly fascinating. I was sitting in the surgical ward all suited up for my second knee replacement. (The first one was four...
