I don’t know about you, but I especially enjoyed looking at all his personal favorite photos, and also a ton of free e-seminars that Marcus gave, and there are links to them on his blog. 

I’m working on a writing project right now that talks about how accessible top notch information is today for those wishing to go pro, and at such an unprecedented rate.  The line between information “haves” and “have nots” is disappearing…  Creativity, imagination, ambition and suave personal skills are the key ingredients to reaching remarkable levels of success in the photography industry, and that is what will separate the wannabes from the diehards.  It’s the diehards that can bring us average joe to tears with the single click of the shutter, and that’s who I want to shoot my family’s portraits.

Anyways, Marcus has amazing images, and is a photographer’s photographer.  He wrote an amazing book a little over a year ago, and now has a blog that takes his personal work for photogaphers to the next level. I hope you check these out and use them to get inspired and work hard at being great.

This post includes samples of my own work, a special offer and awesome ideas to inspire and inform you all about the brave new world of blogging for pro photographers.  First of all, this is a blog post to share the work from a recent wedding.  While I could have spent hours developing the software to provide the same great services, thanks to Into The Darkroom’s Slide Show Max, it couldn’t have been easier to set up and share my favorite images with the bride and groom and their guests.

The folks over at Into The Dark Room have created a new offering to help pro photographers easily and affordably get hooked up with a custom blog for their website.  Their new product, HyperLyte, comes with Twitter integration, a Flash Header, and tons of room for large images. An add-on for HyperLyte, BlogShow (which is currently in Beta) helps you show off large photos without abusing your customer’s poor scroll bar. BlogShow (Beta) oozes efficiency providing more interactivity and less wasted bandwith.   Contact anyone on the ITDR sales team and ask about the HyperLyte special offer for readers of my column.

 To make this blog post even more valuable, here is an online preview of my upcoming Rangefinder column on blogging applications.  If you are considering ways to jump start your blogging strategy or just get a different perspectives on an existing one, I think you will enjoy reading my October column.  As always, I love hearing from you and if you would like, do share your comments on the article here in this blog post (which means click to comment below)

http://www.stevetout.com/articles/blogging-applications-for-photographers.php

Happy blogging!