{"id":49962,"date":"2017-05-09T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T03:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=49962"},"modified":"2017-05-09T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T03:30:29","slug":"why-i-admire-kaiman-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/why-i-admire-kaiman-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY I ADMIRE KAIMAN WONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49963\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49963\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/why-i-admire-kaiman-wong\/kaiman\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kaiman.jpg?fit=1090%2C632&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1090,632\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kaiman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Good times in Hong Kong&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kaiman.jpg?fit=800%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-49963\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kaiman-800x464.jpg?resize=800%2C464\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kaiman.jpg?resize=800%2C464&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kaiman.jpg?resize=768%2C445&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kaiman.jpg?w=1090&amp;ssl=1 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good times in Hong Kong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dear Kai,<\/p>\n<p>I want to write you this (public) letter on why I admire you.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>I. Thank you thank you thank you Kai<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AnalogRev: Eric Kim with Leica M6 &amp; M2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egLEYmogyoE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First of all, I want to thank you so much for helping me to get to where I am. The video you made for me (also thanks to Lok, Alamby, Richard, and digital REV crew) really skyrocketed me. You truly helped me so much \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so thank you thank you thank you.<\/p>\n<h2>II. You are true to yourself<\/h2>\n<p>Secondly, I admire your humor, wit, and how you stay true to yourself. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take yourself too seriously \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and I always love your tongue-in-cheek British humor. The thing I think that most people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about you is that you are a TRUE BRIT. You just happen to be stuck in Asian skin (like me).<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people give you shit, but I think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re fucking awesome. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re probably the funniest, most clever, and innovative photographer I know \u00e2\u20ac\u201d especially in terms of YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of people like you (myself included) because you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t censor yourself. You say what is <em>really<\/em> on your mind. You ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t no slave to public opinion.<\/p>\n<h2>III. You got this shit<\/h2>\n<p>I have no idea what it is like now that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re flying solo \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but I just want to encourage you. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how you are monetizing or whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u201d but just know, you are the most famous photographer in the world. Period.<\/p>\n<p>You have a dedicated and loyal following, because you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t compromise.<\/p>\n<p>You are successful (already) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because you are who you really are. After meeting you in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreal life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you are so much more intelligent, considerate, and kind than people realize.<\/p>\n<h2>IV. You are a good human being<\/h2>\n<p>I admire your love for your wife, your sincerity, and your intelligence. I truly believe that humor, wit, sarcasm, and comedy are signs of high intelligence. And you really are the Jeremy Clarkson of the photography world (and a lot less racist).<\/p>\n<h2>V. You inspire me<\/h2>\n<p>You inspire me to add more humor and realness to my videos, my blog posts, and whatever.<\/p>\n<p>You are the most famous photographer alive\u00e2\u20ac\u201d keep holding that mantle, sharing your humor, and love of photography with all photographers in the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Always,<br \/>\nEric<\/p>\n<h2>Follow Kai<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCknMR7NOY6ZKcVbyzOxQPhw\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaimanwong\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kaimanwong\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kaisphotos\/\">Flickr<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Kai, I want to write you this (public) letter on why I admire you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kaiman.jpg?fit=1090%2C632&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49962","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=49962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}