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In life, the journey is never over. Never stop exploring, never stop thinking, and never stop doing!
What is our true goal on street photography? For me, it is to enter the zen-like state of “flow” (zen zone) of becoming one with your camera. Losing sense of time, self, and space. To shoot with zero hesitation. To be so closely attuned to the world around you with great sensitivity, and to have immaculate timing positioning and shooting ability.
[Read more…] about The Quest for Zen Flow in Street PhotographyThere is no greater joy than acting; to act, to do, to engage in action!
[Read more…] about Action is the Best PleasureA life with arbitrary goals and challenging makes life far more fun, interesting, and insanely enjoyable!
[Read more…] about Obstacles as Self-imposed GoalsSomething I’ve discovered about myself: my extreme joy in being different.
[Read more…] about Be DifferentOne thought on success:
If you desire to succeed, become as NON-TYPICAL (atypical) as possible!
Ultimately, it is all a matter of taste.
This pertains to our artistic tastes, our taste for food and drink, our taste for literature, our taste for music, our taste for aesthetics; of essentially everything.
[Read more…] about TASTE.The strange thing:
We somehow think that the brain/mind can exist independent of the body.
This is where these silly notions of ‘uploading your consciousness’ to the cloud makes no sense. A mind cannot exist without a body. Perhaps the mind IS the body?
[Read more…] about On the Brian, Body and MindOUTLINES: what makes an effective photography composition:
[Read more…] about Outline Photography CompositionThe Desire to Transcend Ourselves
Why do we feel the need to ‘improve’ our selves?
What does it even mean to ‘improve’ a human?
[Read more…] about TRANSCENDENCE.The basic notion:
[Read more…] about Street Photography Technique: The Stalker TechniqueWalk Beside and Alongside the Person while Photographing Them.
A thought if you want to become more productive:
[Read more…] about Via Negativa ProductivityFigure out what to SUBTRACT in order to FOCUS MORE, and to produce more.
Never stop augmenting your physical and mental strength:
[Read more…] about I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?Street photography as a road to live a more interesting life:
[Read more…] about Street Photography for a More Interesting LifeWhen do you feel maximal physical vigor… And when?
[Read more…] about Maximize Your Physical VigorDear streettogs,
Happy Monday! Every start of the week is a good one. Why?
[Read more…] about 5 Photography Motivation TipsThink about all the great photos you have YET made.
What seems most difficult for us photographers?
[Read more…] about PHOTO MOTIVATIONDiscovering the motivation to make new photos.
A lot of people were once famous, but we no longer care for them.
Thus perhaps the goal isn’t to become “famous”, but to have others CARE for us, and CARE about us?
[Read more…] about Care over FameI don’t think there is an ultimate purpose in life, but life is certainly more fun and interesting as long as you keep moving: keep walking, keep exploring, keep traveling, keep shooting photos, keep writing, keep thinking, keep lifting, and keep risking more!
The goal:
Not to become a ‘good’ street photographer, but to become a FEARLESS street photographer.
Pratical ideas:
[Read more…] about How to Become a Fearless Street PhotographerMy life-long vision:
[Read more…] about My Vision: Every Photographer to Thrive to Their Personal MaximumThat every photographer and individual can thrive to their personal maximum, regardless of their socio-economic class.
Something I think about a lot:
[Read more…] about Horizontal vs Vertical PhotosWhen should we shoot vertical and when should we shoot horizontal? And what visual-psychological effects do either have?
To color or black and white street photography?
[Read more…] about Color vs Black and White Street PhotographyWhat holds us back in photography? Our obsession with trying to make “good” photos.
Instead, my suggestion:
[Read more…] about Better Bad Photos than No PhotosIt is better for you to shoot a lot of “bad” photos than to shoot no photos!
A new and change/evolution in my visual aesthetics:
[Read more…] about The More Obscure and Unclear, the Better.I prefer photos that are more obscure than photos which are too clear.
I am convinced. One of the most important pillars to success is to build our own website. Let me explain:
[Read more…] about Why You Must Make Your Own WebsiteWe delight much in shapes and forms. In photography, we delight in forming our photographs; to form reality into photographs which we consider beautiful.
We also desire beautiful forms by purchasing it. We purchase beautiful formed cars, clothes, accessories, tools, devices, homes, etc in order to augment ourselves. But what if a better goal was to form ourselves; to form our mind (continually develop our mind), and also to constantly form our body (building muscle mass through resistance training, and reducing bodyfat through intermittent fasting and abstinence from sugars and starches).
The goal then is:
First form ourselves (our body and mind), then as an artist we use our will to form to create art-works which bring us delight!
ERIC
What is the point of photographing a thing, a place, or a project if someone has already done it before, and you perceive that you can never make a project as good as it?
My suggestion: do it regardless!
[Read more…] about Hopeless Photography
