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Do you live to photograph, or photograph to live?
\nDo you make pictures\u00e2\u20ac\u201d imaging them to be your own kids?<\/p>\n
Do you live to photograph, or photograph to live?
\nWhen you walk the streets, are you paying attention… or sucked into your black mirror, distracted, and running about like an arrow without a quiver?<\/p>\n
Do you shoot to live, or live to shoot?
\nWhere do your creative roots spring from?<\/p>\n
Do you make pictures for you, or for your fans?
\nDo you make your pictures with your own hands?<\/p>\n
Do you shoot for you, or shoot for me?
\nIs your shooting effortless\u00e2\u20ac\u201d can you shoot freely,
\nLight as a feather, and swift like a breeze?<\/p>\n
What does photography mean to you?
\nWhat kind of pictures are you fermenting in your visual brew?<\/p>\n
What colors, lights and tones will you use as your blocks to make your new photo Rome?<\/p>\n
Do you take your photography seriously like a child
\nShooting pictures for a long while, focused, eyes furrowed… creative guile?<\/p>\n
What is your unique style? What is your unique voice?
\nIn the visual streams of the ocean, do your own pictures give your own soul spiritual motion?
\nDo your pictures give you joy and glee?
\nAre you stitching together your own visual tapestry\u00e2\u20ac\u201d do you fit a unique weave?<\/p>\n
Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heave and puff
\nShit, making pictures can be tough
\nBut know that you got this shit
\nKeep swinging your visual bat
\nHit a home run\u00e2\u20ac\u201d over the bleachers
\nListen to yourself, and your own gut
\nKill your teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67383,"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-67441","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\/10\/5AAD93B0-4266-4822-9701-6FD70B502B95-scaled.jpeg?fit=5376%2C4032&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67441","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=67441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67442,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67441\/revisions\/67442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}