Moving at the Speed of Social Media
What happens when life gets in the way and you really can’t move at the speed of social media any longer?
Meet the Hustler
Back in 2009 I was starting to zero in on the kind of images I really liked to make: portraits and fashion photography using off-camera lighting. I had been experimenting with off camera lighting for a little while, having purchased my first flash the year before. In the latter half of the year, I flew down to Atlanta, Georgia, for a photography and lighting workshop with Zack Arias, a photographer I had been following for a while. And that’s where I met Glyn Dewis.
How Social Media Helped Make Me a Photographer
I bought my first digital camera in 2004. I was art directing a new independent magazine with a couple of friends, and needed an easy way to get images for some of the articles without having to hit up all of my photographer friends for too many freebies. I tinkered with this new toy off and on over the next year, enamoured but again not entirely sure what to do with it. And then, I discovered Flickr…
In Search of Community
I’ve been thinking lately about community, and projects. So much of this blog and other assignments for this course have been focused on photography, and looking at how to get myself back on track in the business of being a photographer. Mostly what I’ve been thinking about has been how to build back some of the momentum that I had previously before I moved away from Toronto, how to go about getting my name out into the world. It was in thinking about the Future Trends Discussion assignment that it kind of clicked for me.
Please Pardon the Mess, I am Under Construction
I’ve been away from my camera for a little while. Life got busier, I changed cities, started a family, have been working in another field for the past four years just so I could provide for them. It happens.
Simpler Times & Beautiful Things
It’s a funny thing — the more I got into photography over the years, the fewer photos I actually seemed to take. When I got my first digital camera I carried it around with me everywhere. I was smitten. But it seemed like the more “serious” I got about my photography, the more I got into lighting and portraiture, the less I carried a camera around just for fun. While I was trying my hardest to put together a “professional” kit, I kind of lost the joy of just walking around town experimenting and making beautiful mistakes.