Assuming photography is our passion,, the question:
How do we do more of it?
1. See yourself as a ‘full stack’ visual artist
You’re not a photographer, you’re a visual artist. Thus, the world is your visual oyster. Treat yourself like a Picasso or a Leonardo da Vinci rather than a reductive ‘photographer’. If Leonardo were alive today, he would looooove the technology of the digital camera, and use it in his artistic and scientistic pursuits.
Use all the tools at your hands. iPad and Procreate, or the iPhone and Zen Brush 2 calligraphy app.
All creative outlets are good.

2. Travel more
Travel just literally means:
Leaving your home.
To travel can be as simple as leaving your front porch. TRAVEL NOTES as your personal guide [get free TRAVEL NOTES DIGITAL EDITION]
I find traveling as the ultimate stimulus to photography. Why? The more you get out of your home, the more you see and experience. And it doesn’t gotta be far … just go to your local InandOut burger, your local Costco, or just go on a short road trip somewhere. If you’re in the states, even a short flight somewhere closeby via Southwest as a great stimulus.
3. Becoming part of a photography community

Either in person or online. arsbeta.com as my humble attempt at an “decentralized online anti Social social media platform” for photographers.
- Upload photos to arsbeta.com
- Rate other photos on arsbeta.com
Or you can attend in person photography workshops as a chance to meet other passionate photographers, and to join the social experience which is photography and street photography. Street photography as the way.
4. All photography is good photography
All photography is good. I say just shoot small JPEG and high contrast black and white, and photograph any and everything in your life. To do more photography means:
More opportunities, fewer ‘cliche’ and ‘already been done before’ notions.
Cliche is not that big of a deal. Or what Tom Yeoman says, ‘Classic or cliche?‘
5. Think less, shoot more.
Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Perhaps better to intellectualize less, and just allow your animalistic instincts take over. To photograph like a wolf, and perhaps use our brain to later edit/select our photos.
Or like photographer Anders Petersen says:
Shoot with your gut, edit with your brain.
6. No truth, only tips
No ultimate truth. Just tips and suggestions. Anything that gets you going and moving and shooting is good!
ERIC KIM
Photo assignment ideas
- All black everything: Shoot your photos as dark as possible, and upload your best photos to arsbeta.com
- Have a chat with zen of ERIC KIM chat bot, and figure out why you make photos. Then perhaps write and publish a blog post on it.
- Make a digital e-book or zine of your best photos. Some examples– SEN E-ZINE // [Direct PDF], CHICAGO by KIM (PDF E-ZINE), PDF E-MAGAZINE: CUBA by ERIC KIM. You can make it with Google Slides and export as PDF, or use Affinity Publisher.
- Shoot video. Shoot 24fps in your camera (if possible) and make artsy videos and upload them to YouTube.
- Watch great cinema, and screenshot and practice compositional drawing over them.
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- Just Shoot.
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