A visual stream of consciousness
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Slowly accepting who I am, where I’ll be, and what I can become.
The 2nd phrase that changed my photographic life. This was during a discussion with John Sypal on how he approached his series Zuisha, Vol. 1
The 1st phrase was told to me by my friend TReiz after I showed him some photos after I seriously held a camera for the first time:
I didn’t know you were a street photographer!?
To which I responded, “Wait, what?”
The first one made me realize what I was doing. The second one made me realize how I am living.
She understands that I have a need to wander around. Even if she feels unnoticed because I’m looking for the beauty in the mundane, what she doesn’t know she is always on my mind.
I’m lucky to have a girl like her.
6 months since I got back.
I look at the promises I made before I left. Almost none of them kept.
I feel a lot has happened but nothing has changed.
But I think I am happy.
Me and my Valentine :)
Might as well clean up and look good.
Courtesy of Xing Street Fashion Project
I’m also chasing a star but I know when I’ll stop
“What if the star you’re chasing is in fact a dud? What if you’ve devoted your life to something you’re actually not very good at, but you don’t realize it? I see a lot of photos in galleries made by people who probably believe in themselves, but that doesn’t mean the work belongs in a gallery. But the thing is, the photographer himself can’t tell. Everyone believes in their work. I feel great about my photos, but so does every other Joe Shmoe on Flickr. Maybe I am Joe Shmoe.
This is where outside arbiters can be very valuable. If one meets with continual rejection it might be a sign. Then again it might not be. You can’t be sure.” - Blake Andrews
I told and discipline myself that I wouldn’t put reblogs on this one anymore but I have to. That article by Blake Andrews is something that should be read by image takers that want to make photography their career.
Right now, I really am at a crossroads. I don’t want to do anything else but to shoot. I am doing a documentary project and editing 4 years worth of shots of my hometown. I don’t get a monthly salary and I am only working with a small grant (and I am not complaining, really really thankful in fact :D ) but I am making it work.
Am I happy? Happiest that I have ever been in years. But there is that looming uncertainty and my head tells me “What if you don’t have what it takes?”
That is why I am putting deadline on my star chasing. If I don’t make it to the Angkor Photofest on November despite of all the hardwork I am pulling and will pull in, maybe it’s not for me. I won’t stop shooting but I won’t aim at the stars anymore.
(via photographsonthebrain)
2 days at the beach
![Didn’t know that Nick Turpin has a twitter account.
Charlie Kirk (@twocutedogs) RT’ed a tweet from Mr. Turpin that there will be a prize for his 3,000th follower :) [The prize is ‘10: Ten years of inPublic]
Just the motivation and boost I needed.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx6dqs8jjH1qbon0xo1_1280.png)
Didn’t know that Nick Turpin has a twitter account.
Charlie Kirk (@twocutedogs) RT’ed a tweet from Mr. Turpin that there will be a prize for his 3,000th follower :) [The prize is ‘10: Ten years of inPublic]
Just the motivation and boost I needed.
