ERIC KIM ₿

The more you try to possess your photos, the more they possess you.

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Practical ideas on how to make great photos.

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Don’t worry about quality, focus on substance.

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Better to be obscure and misunderstood than than to be totally decipherable and easily understood.

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Life is infinitely too short to live it boring:

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To ‘curate’ means choosing the photos you care about. To build your strength as a photographer, you must curate your work to only display the photos you care about.

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To live the best possible life, perhaps we should strive to live everyday like it were our last– to make every single day perfect in our own eyes:

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Photography and life is a stream of images:

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Tips of things to photograph:

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Make photos because it is your artistic power:

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Why you must be you:

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Genre doesn’t exist in photography:

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What is the root of our dissatisfaction in our photographic artwork?

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Why You Must Put Yourself Out There:

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Reviewing some photos from last year, some tips:

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If you want to be epic in life, you must be brave, take chances, and take epic risks.

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An exciting entrepreneurial idea: essentially everything we do is streaming. And the more we stream our artwork, the more powerful we will become!

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A ‘better’ photo is a more personal one. A photo you shoot with your soul:

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I think if you adopt an ascetic lifestyle, you can live the best life possible, with the least amount of stress, and the maximum amount of personal freedom, joy, and artistic productivity:

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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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Why is photography great?

Why idea:

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

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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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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 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

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

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

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

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Practical tips and thoughts on making better pictures:

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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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Basic money idea:

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

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

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What is confidence?

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

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My new rule to myself:

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

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

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Obsession with optimizing your life will ruin your life:

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Sublime function for the minimalist photographer.

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

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

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Discovering your style in photography is a constant process:

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

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Dear friend,

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

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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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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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Can you achieve anything epic in life without being assertive?

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Why Be Negative?

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

Is there an ideal lifestyle for myself?

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Dear friend,

Question:

What is it you truly desire in life?

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

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

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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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Dear friend,

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

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

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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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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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In praise of street photography:

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

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

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

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

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

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