Why I Think Photos Are Better for Nostalgia Than Videos
Do you remember when you were a kid, and your mom would tell you to turn off the cartoons and read a book? If you’re like me, you probably moaned and complained. Reading takes considerably more work, compared to practically plugging your brain into a box and going...
Why Being a Photographer is Harder than it Looks
When I was a kid, a photo was relatively big deal—at least in our family. Christmas, easter, halloween, family dinners, relatives in from out of town, prom night, leaving for a vacation, arriving home from a vacation; these, and others like them, were all situations...
Looking Back at Our Favorite Images From 2016
For people all over the world, 2016 is not likely to go down in history as a particularly good year. But inside Petruzzo Photography, it’s been a wonderful year of personal and professional growth, challenges met, failures sustained and lessons learned. In 2016 we had...
Why Professional Photographers Need a New Title
About six or seven years ago, I inadvertently referred to a fellow professional as a videographer. He corrected me, he was a “cinematographer”. I hadn’t heard that objection before, but the more I thought about it, I realized it really was a better name. After all,...