I am absolutely addicted to finding symbolism in the world and putting it into my images. This picture did that for me to the extreme, and it felt fantastic to go out and create this. I was also able to create in a peaceful state of mind, not feeling any pressure to produce something from my trip to the sand dunes. I was content to simply shoot what I love and leave it at that, and if an image that…
The other week I watched this very inspiring speech by by Jack Gleeson who plays Joffrey Baratheon on Game of Thrones. The lecture is all about celebrity, and the ways that we hold someone else up as containing the attributes we should hope to achieve. He gave wonderful insight into what “celebrity” is and why so many worship that social status and even go beyond that to desperation to attain it. All of that stirred up something inside of me…
When I was little my mom told me I could be anything that I wanted to be, and I believed her. When I was little I told my dad I wanted to be a writer, and he let me write. When I was little I wanted to make movies in Hollywood, and my parents showed me how to apply to film school. When I was little I thought I’d try photography, and so I took some creepy pictures of myself…
Finding time to do what you love is always an obstacle at one point or another. We are all busy, and I don’t like to glorify busy-ness, but at the same time, it can creep into our lives unnoticed until suddenly we haven’t any time left for the things we love. So, how do I make time to create whenever I want to create? It isn’t always as simple as that. I am a full time business owner and photography…
I have some new exhibitions opening in the month of March and I wanted to share in case you can make it. I will be attending one of them (boo! wish I could go to each!) and if you do go, snap some pics for me! Art Gallery AFK: Staging and Revelation, Group Show Lisbon, Portugal March 7-April 12 This show is going to be an absolute delight, this I already know…and I’m definitely not talking about my own work,…