When looking at art there can be said to be a wide variety of styles, mediums, genres, and sub-genres. To say all of this can get noisy is an understatement. It is most easily seen in a poorly laid out gallery that mashes them all together as a collage of chaotic pieces with nothing in common.
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Chasing Passion vs Money
I enjoy having money. It is why I work. Money is what makes things possible in many ways! Money is not why I do photography though and for several very good reasons. There really aren’t many photographers that will get rich from photography, it is my hobby first and escape from work, and my photography is about what is important to me not what sells.
Read MorePhotography: What's Your Purpose?
I have been practicing photography for around five years now. During these last five years, I have become a better photographer, but I would say that when it comes to creating meaningful art, I have only just begun. While images don’t have to be meaningful, I do find that having a purpose behind pressing the shutter makes the process more fulfilling.
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Landscape photography is a very competitive field. As photography becomes more accessible it will only become more so. I am part of this boom of the medium over the last several years, and I welcome everyone else to join in on creating landscape images! However, one of the things that can make landscape photography a challenge is the more people creating images and publishing them every day the more it can make us self-conscious about our own work.
Read MoreHard Work vs Results
There is a lot of work that goes into one of my images. there is a story behind each one of the time on location and getting there as well as what went into producing the image itself. HOWEVER, …
Read MoreDead Poets Society in Landscape Photography
I believe photography and poetry aren’t that unrelated. I like to think of my images as a way of communicating emotion, mood, and a story or poem through the visual elements I chose to include. A photograph is worth a thousand words after all!
Read MoreI'm not just a photographer. I am an artist.
It feels like a badge of honor to call myself a photographer. At least it used to before I thought about it more and then heard it behind defined. A photographer is, simply put someone that takes photographs. As an artist, I get to choose to create photographs and I just so happen to use a camera to do that.
Read MoreLetting the Mind Wander
When practicing photography it isn’t always easy to compose and capture great images that are uniquely yours. Of course you will need good light and interesting subjects, but this isn’t the whole story.
Read MoreLearning from Bad Photography
It is important to fail. We all have taken bad images before. Everybody has done something cringe-worthy in their processing one time or another. Nobody has a perfect portfolio of images that they love from years prior.
Read MoreWork vs a Job
You have to do work at a job, but work doesn’t have to be a job. Personal work can be something you choose to do that furthers you creatively, financially, or otherwise.
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