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  • New ERIC KIM WORKSHOPS 2019

    New ERIC KIM WORKSHOPS 2019

    Conquer your fears and meet new peers:

    • March 7-10: Mexico City / Travel Photography Experience – Feb 15th Early-Bird Discount Deadline
    • March 30: San Francisco / Photography Marketing and Branding Workshop – NEW!
    • April 6: San Francisco / Conquer Your Fears in Life Workshop – NEW!
    • April 24-29: Hanoi to Sapa, Vietnam / Travel Photography Experience 

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  • Photography as the Ultimate Artistic Form of Self-Expression

    Photography as the Ultimate Artistic Form of Self-Expression

    Why is photography great?

    Why idea:

    We can transform our “normal” reality into something super-natural — something greater.

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  • How to Create Your Own Aesthetics in Photography

    How to Create Your Own Aesthetics in Photography

    Creating your own aesthetic in photography: the camera you use, the focal length you use, whether you shoot with flash or natural light, and how you process your photos (whether RAW or JPEG):

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  • Be Relentless; Don’t Stop!

    Be Relentless; Don’t Stop!

    What is the secret to success? We cannot be certain, but stopping and not continuing to hustle seems to a good path to unsuccess.

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  • LIVE DOPE.

    LIVE DOPE.

    Live dope with no hope for tomorrow or the day after 

    Live today with brave laughter, despite disaster

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  • Why You Must Look at Your Older Photos

    Why You Must Look at Your Older Photos

    Why You Must Look at Your Older Photos

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  • Why You Must Become a Photography Blogger

    Why You Must Become a Photography Blogger

    Let us take back the means of production and publishing, by owning our own photo publishing platform (our website/blog), instead of just depending on Facebook-Instagram or other social media platforms.

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  • Beyond Happiness

    Beyond Happiness

    Is it Possible to Be “Happier” or More Happy in Life?

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  • Your First Billion Photos are Your Worst

    Your First Billion Photos are Your Worst

    My new life goal: shoot a billion photos before I die.

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  • How to Become a More Self-Confident Artist

    How to Become a More Self-Confident Artist

    First of all, recognize the fact that you ARE an artist.

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  • How to Take Better Pictures

    How to Take Better Pictures

    Practical tips and thoughts on making better pictures:

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  • What is Art?

    What is Art?

    What is “art”? To me, art is a concious activity of creating something that expresses you, your power, your ideas, or your own ideals.

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  • To Become Rich, Don’t Go Broke

    To Become Rich, Don’t Go Broke

    Basic money idea:

    Rather than worrying about getting “rich”, better to focus on NOT going broke!

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  • Create Today, Everyday

    Create Today, Everyday

    Don’t delay your creating for tomorrow; create TODAY // RIGHT NOW!

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  • How to Build Your Self-Confidence

    How to Build Your Self-Confidence

    What is confidence?

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  • What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?

    What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?

    A thought:

    In life, do things and consume things which make you stronger. Don’t do anything or consume anything that makes you weaker.

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  • My Personal Rules for Myself

    My Personal Rules for Myself

    A list of my personal virtues/vices, and personal rules for myself.

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  • Why Hate?

    Why Hate?

    My new rule to myself:

    I will never hate, nay-say, or criticize anyone else.

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  • Don’t Seek to Please or Impress Others with Your Photos

    Don’t Seek to Please or Impress Others with Your Photos

    If you try to impress or please others with your photos; you will end up making boring photos.

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  • In Praise of an Anti-Optimized Life

    In Praise of an Anti-Optimized Life

    Obsession with optimizing your life will ruin your life:

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  • ERIC KIM LINE

    ERIC KIM LINE

    Sublime function for the minimalist photographer.

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  • 5 Tips to Simplify Your Photography Workflow in Adobe Lightroom (Desktop)

    5 Tips to Simplify Your Photography Workflow in Adobe Lightroom (Desktop)

    Here is a general overview of my Lightroom (desktop) workflow currently looks like:

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  • Satisfice

    Satisfice

    With material things (phones, laptops, cars, homes, clothes) don’t seek the “perfect” thing. Rather, “satisfice” (satisfy + suffice); seek material things which you consider 80% “good enough” and settle/stick with it!

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  • What Should You Do With Your Life Once You Retire?

    What Should You Do With Your Life Once You Retire?

    A lot of people delay their personal happiness until they retire one day. But the question is this:

    What do you even want to do with your life once you retire?

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  • To Improve Your Life, Subtract the Superfluous from Your Life

    To Improve Your Life, Subtract the Superfluous from Your Life

    When we say we want to “improve” our lives, or to live a “better” life– what does that really mean?

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  • How to Discover Your Style in Photography

    How to Discover Your Style in Photography

    Discovering your style in photography is a constant process:

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  • You’re an Artist.

    You’re an Artist.

    If your passion is photography, you’re an artist. No need to get approval from others.

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  • How to Conquer Anxiety

    How to Conquer Anxiety

    Dear friend,

    Here are some practical thoughts on how to conquer anxiety in life:

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  • Shoot For Yourself

    Shoot For Yourself

    A thought:

    The best photos are the ones which bring us joy.

    How do we make these types of photos? Simple: shoot photos as if nobody else could see your photos. This will be the ultimate judge of whether you shoot photos for yourself or for others.

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  • Could You Live a Happy Life if You Could Never Shoot Photos or Travel Ever Again?

    Could You Live a Happy Life if You Could Never Shoot Photos or Travel Ever Again?

    A thought I had while at the gym:

    If you could never shoot photos or travel ever again– could you live a happy life?

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  • Why You Must Become More Assertive in Life

    Why You Must Become More Assertive in Life

    Can you achieve anything epic in life without being assertive?

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  • Life is Too Short to Be Negative

    Life is Too Short to Be Negative

    Why Be Negative?

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  • How to Achieve Your Ideal Lifestyle

    How to Achieve Your Ideal Lifestyle

    A question I’ve been grappling with a long time:

    Is there an ideal lifestyle for myself?

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  • What Do You Truly Desire to Do or Achieve in Life?

    What Do You Truly Desire to Do or Achieve in Life?

    Dear friend,

    Question:

    What is it you truly desire in life?


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  • Power Photography

    Power Photography

    I have this new notion of photography:

    What if we saw photography as a tool of empowerment, instead of just making photos?

    I call this notion ‘power photography’.

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  • Adapt photography to your life, don’t adapt your life to photography

    Adapt photography to your life, don’t adapt your life to photography

    A realization:

    If the purpose of photography isn’t to become a better photographer, perhaps we shouldn’t make photography the ultimate aim of our lives.

    Instead, we should be seeking to live a better life. And how do we improve our lives and live a better life? By adapting our photography to our life, not adapting our life to our photography.

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  • The Secret of Happiness

    The Secret of Happiness

    Some personal thoughts on how to discover ‘true’ happiness:

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  • Why You Must Obey Yourself and Your Own Needs

    Why You Must Obey Yourself and Your Own Needs

    Always put yourself first. Obey your personal needs, desires, and “musts” in life before trying to help others:

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  • Why You Must Create Your Own Personal Brand

    Why You Must Create Your Own Personal Brand

    As a modern photographer in this brave new digital world, to succeed you must create your own personal brand into yourself:

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  • Why You Must Follow Your Passion in Life

    Why You Must Follow Your Passion in Life

    Dear friend,

    I think following your passion in life is the ONLY way to live!

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  • Why Hustle?

    Why Hustle?

    “Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus.” (Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work) – Horace

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  • In Praise of Audacity

    In Praise of Audacity

    To be audacious means to love taking risks, being bold, to dare, and to venture for the uncertain, even though it might mean you will be hated, ridiculed, insulted, ignored, or fail.

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  • How to Conquer Shyness

    How to Conquer Shyness

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  • FREE Open-Source ERIC KIM Stock Photographs

    FREE Open-Source ERIC KIM Stock Photographs

    ERIC KIM STOCK PHOTOS [Dropbox Download Link]: A collection of free, open-source photographs for you to use for any purpose:

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  • Street Photography is Art with People

    Street Photography is Art with People

    In praise of street photography:

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  • Why Save Money?

    Why Save Money?

    Stack up the zeroes and commas in your bank account as a fun game.

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  • Why Blog?

    Why Blog?

    Everyone tells you that you “should” blog more– but why?

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  • You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming

    You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming

    A tip from my buddy Heraclitus: We are constantly in a state of becoming; an endless state of flux in which we are constantly changing, evolving, and becoming more (and less) at the same time.

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  • Don’t Ask for Permission

    Don’t Ask for Permission

    If you want to become the most epic entrepreneur or you in life, don’t ask for permission.

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  • Don’t Be Humble

    Don’t Be Humble

    In praise of a magnanimous, great, and anti-humble personal philosophy and mindset:

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  • How to Build Equity in Yourself

    How to Build Equity in Yourself

    If you desire full control over yourself and your life, you must build equity in yourself.

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  • Onto the Next One

    Onto the Next One

    Anti-statis in life; we must always be “onto the next one” if we hope to continue to evolve, change, and move forward!

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  • Create Substance, Not Content

    Create Substance, Not Content

    The best way to market yourself is to create things of substance:

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  • Photography Marketing and Branding 101

    Photography Marketing and Branding 101

    A practical primer on how to get discovered as a photographer, how to promote yourself, and how to gain more notoriety and fame as a photographer:

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  • Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself

    Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself

    In Praise of Self-Promotion:

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  • How to Conquer Pessimism

    How to Conquer Pessimism

    Pessimism — this little troll. Where does this ugly demon come from?

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  • Life is about Choices, Not Obligations

    Life is about Choices, Not Obligations

    Dear friend,

    A realization:

    Life should be about OPTIONS and CHOICES, not ‘obligations’ or a sense of ‘duty’.

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  • The purpose of photography isn’t to become a ‘better’ photographer. The purpose of photography is to live a happier life!

    The purpose of photography isn’t to become a ‘better’ photographer. The purpose of photography is to live a happier life!

    Is photography improving your life?

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  • 10 Tips How to Become a More Famous Photographer

    10 Tips How to Become a More Famous Photographer

    Fame is good:

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  • How to Post-Process Your Photos in Lightroom

    How to Post-Process Your Photos in Lightroom

    Practical workflow tips for Lightroom:

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  • Why You Must Conquer Your Fears in Life

    Why You Must Conquer Your Fears in Life

    How to become the most epic you:

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  • Why I Think an Ascetic Lifestyle is Sexy

    Why I Think an Ascetic Lifestyle is Sexy

    In praise of an ascetic lifestyle:

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  • Why You Must Become Self-Employed

    Why You Must Become Self-Employed

    Life isn’t fair — but how can we profit from our modern capitalist system? The secret: become self-employed.

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  • 7 Tips How to Make Better Photos

    7 Tips How to Make Better Photos

    Simple and practical tips on making better photos:

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  • The Best Digital Camera

    The Best Digital Camera

    The best camera is the simplest “stand alone” camera.

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  • The 10 Commandments of Photography

    The 10 Commandments of Photography

    My personal commandments for myself in photography (you don’t need to follow these):

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  • How to Motivate Yourself

    How to Motivate Yourself

    You have 100% control over yourself and your own willpower:

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  • HAPTIC MAGAZINE Issue #1: Our Story

    HAPTIC MAGAZINE Issue #1: Our Story

    Dear streettogs, I am very proud to announce the launch of HAPTIC MAGAZINE #1: Our Story [Free PDF Download]

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  • How to Blog

    How to Blog

    I think I’m one of the greatest photography bloggers of all-time. Here is some practical advice I would give you on how to blog:

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  • Anti-Nihilism

    Anti-Nihilism

    What is the worst malady in the modern world? Nihilism (the pathetic philosophy that says life isn’t worth living).

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