Photographers : do you know about AskDane.com? With Dane Sanders? Of Fast Track Photographer fame?

Holy Geez this guy is fantastic! I’ve never *actually* met Dane Sanders, but I kind of love him. We’ll be friends someday and I’ll send him a Christmas card.

Mostly because of his great photographer resource, AskDane.com – you can just see his generous spirit and heart through what he offers to the photography community.

I haven’t been watching AskDane.com since the very beginning, so I couldn’t tell you how it started.

But, currently, once a week (Tuesday afternoons), Dane and (usually) a guest live broadcasts a 30min interview (that nearly always runs long) via Ustream. I have NEVER been able to catch it live, but if you do you can twitter questions to @danesanders and possibly have them answered live.

They tackle topics like asserting yourself, quitting your day job, dealing with other wedding vendors and tips for getting published. All the soft skills and infrastructure details that is our businesses are really more about than just photography. It is very wedding-photographer-centric, but I would imagine you could get some great tips and inspiration no matter what kind of photography business you run.

In the last few months, ShootQ has been sponsoring AskDane.com which allows each episode to be available as recorded later. So if you don’t catch the live version, you can always check out the archive. Which is AMAZING. And always a delight.

Note: if you haven’t yet, I recommend reading Fast Track Photographer. I bought it last spring, and LOVED it.  Honestly plan on reading it about once per year for as long as possible. (there’s a new version coming out May 2010, so you can only pre-order at the moment)

There are a TON of educational archives, so please catch yourself up as needed. You’ll get something out of every episode.

When you watch an episode or two, I’d love it if you left a comment below with your thoughts…

xo