{"id":5585,"date":"2012-01-31T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2012-01-31T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:15:40","slug":"a-personal-reflection-on-the-last-6-months-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/a-personal-reflection-on-the-last-6-months-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Reflection on the Last 6 Months of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-CsNulGZInM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"670\" height=\"484\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today I turn 24, and by chance it also happens to be around the 6-month mark since I last got <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/a-new-chapter-for-eric-kim-street-photography\/\">laid off my previous job<\/a> and decided to pursue street photography full-time. I thought it might be a good opportunity for me to thank you guys personally for all your support and faith, and take a moment to reflect. Please watch the video above where I talk a bit about my fortunes, misfortunes, and the amazing journey I have been blessed with.<\/p>\n<p>People I would like to especially thank in no particular order (sorry if I forgot to include your name!):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loryne Atoui<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Leuthard<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Kirk<\/li>\n<li>Bellamy Hunt<\/li>\n<li>Damien Rayuela<\/li>\n<li>Jason Gritjas<\/li>\n<li>Adam Marelli<\/li>\n<li>Souvik De<\/li>\n<li>Jason Martini<\/li>\n<li>Todd Hatakeyama<\/li>\n<li>My mom!<\/li>\n<li>Cindy Nguyen<\/li>\n<li>JJ Viau<\/li>\n<li>Christian\u00c2\u00a0Erhardt<\/li>\n<li>Adam Rahim<\/li>\n<li>Jasime Aum<\/li>\n<li>Tom Britcha<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Patterson<\/li>\n<li>Neil Ta<\/li>\n<li>Kaushal Parikh<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Ong<\/li>\n<li>Alfie Goodrich<\/li>\n<li>Danny Santos<\/li>\n<li>Dav Cheng<\/li>\n<li>Rinzi Ruiz<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Cabal<\/li>\n<li>ABC<\/li>\n<li>Kevin WY Lee<\/li>\n<li>Ivan Wong<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Goh<\/li>\n<li>Chris Gampat<\/li>\n<li>Josh White<\/li>\n<li>Dani Kim<\/li>\n<li>David Kim<\/li>\n<li>Mijonju<\/li>\n<li>Angelo De Mesa<\/li>\n<li>My sister (Anna Kim)<\/li>\n<li>Olivia Lee<\/li>\n<li>Jinhwan Roh<\/li>\n<li>Luke Ding<\/li>\n<li>Holly Pyon<\/li>\n<li>Brian Reilly<\/li>\n<li>Francoise Callier<\/li>\n<li>And to all of you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Wish me a happy birthday with film!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wishlist\/2T5PGM0S8SBJO\/ref=cm_sw_su_w\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5589\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/a-personal-reflection-on-the-last-6-months-of-my-life\/film\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/film.jpg?fit=578%2C454&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"578,454\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Happy Birthday Film\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Happy birthday film! :)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/film.jpg?fit=578%2C454&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5589 alignnone\" title=\"Happy Birthday Film\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/film.jpg?resize=578%2C454\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have gotten something meaningful out of this blog or I have helped you on your personal street photography journey, please wish me a happy birthday and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/w\/2T5PGM0S8SBJO\">consider getting me some film<\/a> to work on my future projects! I would love some Portra and some Tri-X!<\/p>\n<p>Love you all,<\/p>\n<p>Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I turn 24, and by chance it also happens to be around the 6-month mark since I last got laid off my previous job and decided to pursue street photography full-time. I thought it might be a good opportunity for me to thank you guys personally for all your support and faith, and take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[157],"tags":[1063,716],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-reflection","tag-video-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/film.jpg?fit=578%2C454&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","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=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}