Course Outline:
“BYOB-Beyond Your Own Brain - Beyond Your Own Brain is:”
Unique spirits
Personal authenticity
Dynamics
Practical tools and ideas
Life changing motivations
Business skills
Marketing and sales skills
Photographic techniques
Hands on Photoshop
Writing, professional and personal
Soul searching
Dreams, visions, possibilities
Concepts and techniques of champions
The power of positive energy, challenging and defeating negativity
Thought processes, creative processes
Visualization techniques
Creating and defining standards of personal excellence
Excitement of life
Finding the guts of success
The joy of laughter
The precious side of love and life
Positive self development
Evaluating and taking risks
Developing the fine art of gratitude
Dreams, desires, destiny
Self responsibility
Creating rewarding lives of service, passion, and purpose
Well, if that doesn’t scare you or tickle you, then throw in the two instructors, Joe and Carol who mediate and guide the process of the class, while sharing their own adventures, successes and challenges with the class one on one……the result, is sheer magic.
It’s a different mindset than most classes…..its a dynamic combination of chemistry, knowledge, talent and commitment of two photographers, joining with their students to give, teach and share from their hearts and souls to help improve the lives all involved. You will laugh, you will cry, you will learn. Most of all, you will return to home living your work, and your loving life a little more deeply.
Will you have the courage to join us, to discover what is truly “beyond your own brain”?
Come and discover the difference. You’re worth it.

About Joe & Carol:
Join industry leaders, Joe Glyda and Carol Andrews, in this high energy, fast paced experience to increase your creativity and expand your imagination, as well as strengthen your photographic and business skills.

Experience Joe’s “high tech” digital photography and Photoshop expertise, and Carol’s “high touch” style of portraiture.
You must have a good understanding of photography. We’ll jumpstart your brain, and give you the power to unleash your creativity. We’ll guide you through photo-essays, creative exercises, real-life photographic situations and tools to give yourself a new and fresh attitude for yourself, your business and your art.

A positive attitude and sense of humor are required for the class. This class emulates the Image Explorations’ school energy with inspiration, fun and hard work!

Joe Glyda, M.Photog.Cr., from Glenview, Ill, is a commercial photographer, specializing in food photography since 1977, and is the Digital Imaging Manager for Kraft Foods. His primary focus has been in the digital photography realm since 1993 and boasts of not shooting film since 1995. He is a Photoshop instructor for National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and Teaches at Texas School of professional photography. Joe is also on the Advisory Board at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, IL since 1996. Joe is a past recipient of the Nikon Photographer of the Year, and is a longtime member of PPA.

Carol Andrews, M.Photog.Cr., specializes in artistic and evocative portraiture. Based in her home studio in Houston, Texas, she teaches nationally on topics varying from marketing and sales, to creativity and inspiration.
She currently serves PPA as one of the SMS marketing and photography consultants, and is an Approved Business Instructor, and is an instructor at the Texas School of professional photography.

Together, these two instructors will give you the inspiration of creativity and skill set of Photoshop that you will need to bring your photography business to a new level.

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