Making photos, and philosophizing about photography.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Photo Philosophy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"zen](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/providence-thanksgiving-2019-eric-kim-ricoh-gr-iii254-3000x4500.jpg?resize=1180%2C1770&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPhotolosophy<\/a>; thinking deeper about the philosophy of aesthetics in photo, and meaning of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\nExistential photography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If you experience something, but don’t take a photo of it, did it really happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or in other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If something happened and you didn’t take a photo of it, and you don’t have photos to spark your memory. was the experience still ‘worth it’?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n![\"zen](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/providence-thanksgiving-2019-eric-kim-ricoh-gr-iii237-3000x2000.jpg?resize=1180%2C787&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYour photos reflect your aesthetic philosophy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"stick](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/providence-thanksgiving-2019-eric-kim-ricoh-gr-iii311.jpg?resize=1180%2C787&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhen I look at a lot of my photos, I can see my penchant and appreciation for nature, manmade things, minimalism, simplicity, and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, I can see my childlike wonder of the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"snow](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/snow-HD-60-fps-gif.gif?resize=706%2C388&ssl=1\")
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI love making selfies<\/a> and photos of myself. Why? I am the ultimate subject. I know myself the best, and I have unlimited access to myself. I can never refuse to be photographed by myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/B366B1F5-42C5-4E15-A4A7-C07A9E9B23F5.png?resize=1180%2C1573&ssl=1\")
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\n\n\n\nPhotolosophy<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/photolosophy-cover.jpg?resize=1180%2C1723\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDiscover more personal meaning in your photographic life with PHOTOLOSOPHY ><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n- First Get Happier, then Shoot Photos!<\/a>\nNo Artwork SHOULD Last Forever<\/a><\/li>
- High Photography<\/a><\/li>
- How to Photograph Your Everyday Life<\/a><\/li>
- The Photograph is Not Sacred<\/a><\/li>
- PHOTO MODE.<\/a><\/li>
- The Visual Soundtrack of Your Life<\/a><\/li>
- The Photographer is a Visual Explorer and Transformer<\/a><\/li>
- Photography as the Ultimate Artistic Form of Self-Expression<\/a><\/li>
- Don’t Seek to Please or Impress Others with Your Photos<\/a><\/li>
- Shoot For Yourself<\/a><\/li>
- Power Photography<\/a><\/li>
- Creative Evolution<\/a><\/li>
- The Artist-Photographer<\/a><\/li>
- Photo Realism<\/a><\/li>
- Perpetual Photography<\/a><\/li>
- All Photography is Good Photography<\/a><\/li>
- Optimal Simplicity<\/a><\/li>
- Photograph.<\/a><\/li>
- True Happiness in Photography<\/a><\/li>
- NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOOT! #photolosophy<\/a><\/li>
- Photolosophy: With Physical Proximity comes Emotional Proximity<\/a><\/li>
- Why Share Photos?<\/a><\/li>
- Chaos Photography<\/a><\/li>
- Soul Street Photography<\/a><\/li>
- Now is the Time to Shoot!<\/a><\/li>
- Photolosophy 101: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Photograph Others the Way You Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Want to Be Photographed<\/a><\/li>
- Photolosophy 101: Life and Death in Photography<\/a><\/li>
- Photolosophy 101: Street Photography and the Art of People<\/a><\/li>
- Introduction to Photolosophy<\/a><\/li>
- Photography Entrepreneurship Philosophy<\/a><\/li>
- Photography Philosophy 101<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPhotolosophy<\/a>; thinking deeper about the philosophy of aesthetics in photo, and meaning of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you experience something, but don’t take a photo of it, did it really happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or in other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If something happened and you didn’t take a photo of it, and you don’t have photos to spark your memory. was the experience still ‘worth it’?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n When I look at a lot of my photos, I can see my penchant and appreciation for nature, manmade things, minimalism, simplicity, and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, I can see my childlike wonder of the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I love making selfies<\/a> and photos of myself. Why? I am the ultimate subject. I know myself the best, and I have unlimited access to myself. I can never refuse to be photographed by myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Discover more personal meaning in your photographic life with PHOTOLOSOPHY ><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n My great joys in life: Making photos, and philosophizing about photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/providence-thanksgiving-2019-eric-kim-ricoh-gr-iii237-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195560,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195443\/revisions\/195560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Existential photography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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