Comments on: And the Crowd Goes Wild https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/ Finding passion. Sharing passion. Promoting passion. Mon, 30 May 2016 05:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Stuff I Loved This Week – Dragonfly Sakura https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-70306 Mon, 30 May 2016 05:40:55 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-70306 […] Brooke Shaden – And The Crowd Goes Wild […]

]]> By: natalie https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19404 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:24:14 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19404 <3

]]> By: Sven Kristian https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19360 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:54:11 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19360 Hi:-)

Thanks for this post, extremely inspiring!
In 2011, at 32 years old, I decided to give up my career in hotels (which I hated) and pursue photography. Having lived in the UK for 8 years, I packed my bags and moved to South Africa to study again. Its been extremely difficult, yet exciting! Having invested everything into my new career (as a freelancer no less) I am currently poorer, but happier, and that is ok!

Through hard work and passion I am making progress and I often lose sight and feel that I might not be on the right track, but then I read an article like yours and that reassures me that I am not alone in this and i’m doing ok and am heading forward and up. I strongly believe in my work and apart from a few confidence issues that need sorting out, things are great! I started as a freelancer last year and have now been offered representation, which is a huge step for me a boost in my confidence and it is thanks to people like you and a few others out there that take the time to share and give back.

Thank you:-)

Sven Kristian

]]> By: Hanna https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19334 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:13:21 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19334 Spot on, hit my heart right away. I have been insecure about sharing my work online but I have recently started to come out of the bubble. Your words about that we should share what we love and others will love it too I will definitely take with me.

I have told my family about my art and showed them. I haven’t yet shown my friends, but some of them has a vauge idea about what I do. I need to find some likeminded friends ;). A website that has my name as the “address” still freaks me out. Need to get over that, hopefully some day I will.

]]> By: Thea https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19332 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:12:00 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19332 T h a n k y o u s o m u c h!

]]> By: Ailene https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19324 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:37:18 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19324 Thank you Brooke. I can totally identify with this and have struggled with my art in the past when people close to me have not “liked” it. I love your perspective – in the end it’s your opinion that matters the most.

]]> By: Sarah Querido https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19276 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:08:14 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19276 I needed this! thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Paulo Alexandre Carvalho https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19159 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:50:00 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19159 I wanted to say something, but sometimes you leave me without words. The only thing I remember saying is: You are a blessing! 🙂

]]> By: Tom Newforge https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19146 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:43:53 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19146 Very good post. I had a bit of a eureka moment while reading it. That is that I need to stop being so concerned about what my peers in this business think about my work. For that matter I also need to be a touch less critical of my work. A few images I’ve recently posted online had me so nervous due to the high bar set by some of our friends. I got some great feedback from non photographers but no “oh wow” from my peers. They were likely busy and maybe missed it. I tell myself that but I was still pretty stressed over it.
Then during this read I realized that it doesn’t really matter what my photog friends think. They don’t pay the bills and the likelihood they would buy my work, even as a goodwill gesture, is slim. The feedback from potential customers DOES matter though. They DO pay the bills and have no idea what a blending brush is anyway. Haha.
So thank you. I’ve been stuck and uninspired lately due to my lack of creating something as perfectly as I want in photoshop. I have some decent concepts from France that I’ve been scared to death to even touch. I think I’m over that now:)

]]> By: Mary-Claire https://www.promotingpassion.com/and-the-crowd-goes-wild/#comment-19142 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:31:37 +0000 http://www.promotingpassion.com/?p=270#comment-19142 Having majored in Theatre and Film, I, like you, did what I felt I “had” to in order to be happy. Years later, my friends whispered how odd I was when I went to massage school. I’m the “odd duck”, no doubt.

When I started doing photography, I started to be stressed from having to “perform”-to get the “likes”, to hear kudos, to make money. My husband luckily caught on to that and asked why I was even doing photography if I got stressed over it. Once we decided I should only do what I love and not care what others think, it felt as if a tremendous burden had been lifted.

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