Chris Macaskill: Our passion for photography goes beyond just sharing them online because it’s our passion and our life and our legacy. How do we deliver our client’s perspective of the world?
Don Macaskill: How do we deliver the best photo sharing experience to our customers?
Chris Macaskill: How do we give them what they need? Those are the questions we’ve been asking ourselves since the beginning.
Don Macaskill: They are the questions that drive our business, that drive our product.
Sam Nichols: What we have done is it allows photographers and artists to show the world how awesome their stuff is.
Dale Federighi: Photography in and of itself represents a person’s view of the world.
Michael Soo: I am a photographer because I have to be.
John Harrison: Being able to capture the essence of these fantastic places that I’m at.
Brian Strong: We deliver the complete solution to help them manage their world.
John Harrison: And if no one sees them, then what’s the point? And the way that SmugMug has helped me establish my presence, I wouldn’t be where I’m at today.
Larry Abitbol: There’s a lot of great things working at SmugMug, but one of the greatest is their continuous new product development.
Dale Federighi: We have a really rich feature set that a lot of pros simply want to use and know will benefit them.
Sam Nichols: We make things cool.
John Harrison: Whether it’s a small thumbnail or a gigantic panorama, it looks beautiful.
Michael Soo: It can be customized It can be integrated It’s a no- brainer.
Man: I’ve used SmugMug in general as really a group of photo geeks.
Chris Macaskill: Our passion for photography goes beyond just sharing them online.
Brian Strong: 90% of this company are photographers.
Chris Macaskill: We can understand why they’re passionate about a feature, why they want it to wok one way or the other.
Don Macaskill: It really helps mold a product that pros really love and want to use.
Chris Macaskill: Because we are photographers.
Don Macaskill: It’s how we’ve grown the feature set. It’s how we’ve innovated and extended the product.
Stephanie Theune: We listen to all of our customers. What you actually say comes in and we hear it, and we hope to react.
Don Macaskill: So, we went out and got the best print lab we could find after lots of testing. Bay Photo, which I think is the best professional print lab in the world.
Larry Abitbol: We’re proud to be providing the professional print services for SmugMug.
Chris Macaskill: The quality of the craftsmanship is like no lab I’ve ever seen in the world.
Don Macaskill: SmugMug is a different kind of company. We built it that way from day one.
Dale Federighi: I love the company.
Sam Nichols: This is beyond a full-time job for me.
Stephanie Theune: It’s not just a job for any of us.
Man: We’ve got my wife, who’s the chef, who cooks awesome lunches.
Man: We eat together. We play together.
Man: Everybody who starts in the company gets their face painted.
Man: I’ve never felt so a part of a team and a family.
Frederique Dame: It’s just a very energizing environment where everyone is really living their passion.
Michael Soo: What SmugMug does is they deliver my love and my life and my passion.
John Harrison: SmugMug really helps me deliver my perspective of the world.
Frederique Dame: It’s more than a company, and I am very grateful to be part of this.
Chris Macaskill: SmugMug is a company where we just followed our passion for photography, and we wanted to make the biggest, most beautiful galleries for your photos and videos that you could find anywhere on the net, and that’s what we’ve done.
Elephant Ears, Corn Dogs and 4H Barns = Good Times
Thursday, September 15th, 2011I’m going to admit it: I’m addicted to County Fairs. I grew up in a small town in Northern Michigan where summers meant getting into trouble, swimming in the community pool and wandering aimlessly around the county fair. And whenever I travel and see the words “County Fair,” thoughts of elephant ears, corn dogs, sticky fingers and the smell of 4-H animals seems like sweet perfume calling out, “John, stop now!” A few weeks ago I had the chance to visit the Madison County Fair in Twin Bridges, Montana where I spent the afternoon visiting with local farmers and 4-H kids. What I’ve grown to love about the fair is touring the 4-H barns and talking to the kids about their animals, science projects and especially perusing the photography contest.
Madison County Fair 4-H'ers
This young man was such a trooper; I could tell it was a bittersweet day for him as he explained with a little quiver in his voice how he raised his steer over the last year, feeding it several pounds of grain a day, and caring for it just to bring it to market at the county fair. You know he had been told not to get attached, but this young guy was brave enough to show he cared for his animal.
Prepping the sheep for sale
These two young girls were painting the legs of their sheep black and carefully brushing her out before they took her out to be judged. They had the sheep in this outfit because they had washed her earlier in the day and didn’t want her to get dirty.
4-H'ers sharing insight with visitiors is an important part of the 4-H learning process.
If you’re willing to make an investment in time and truly have a curious nature about you, then fairs are an excellent photo opportunity for environmental portraits. These kids put a lot of time and energy raising their animals and learning about crop management, but most importantly these kids represent our future. Next time your county fair is going on grab the family, your camera, closed toe shoes and wet-wipes and get ready for one heck of an experience.
Make sure and enter John's Black & White Photo Contest! Info here.
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