The print and the process

More about it here.

Craft & Vision – The Free eBook

More about it here.

Photographically speaking

Just got the book :)

Do the work!

Don’t worry about

getting inspired,

being original,

or any of the other things that

haunt the creative mind.

The muse will show up,

she always does.

It’s she who’s waiting.

Just start.

Do the work.

Read it here.

Don't settle!

"All those many words to say: don’t settle.

Your dreams will be different than mine,

but the regret for not living them

will be the same.

Life is short.

Choose your risk intentionally,

don’t try to avoid it.

Live a great story;

don’t settle for merely watching them.

Whatever got stirred in you

when I wrote the first blog post

in the Life is Short category,

I hope you’re moving towards it.

Because those dreams are part of what

it means to life to the fullest."

Found it here.

Photographically Speaking

Looking forward to reading it!
Expected release date: August 2011


amazon.co.uk and amazon.com links.

Take more risks

The question that was asked was along the lines

of the kind of advice I’d give to people

starting out, specifically those wanting to make

a living with their photography.

My reply is the same whether or not you ever intend to

make a dime at your art:

Take more risks.

found it here.

Quote: The value lies

"You can generate idea after idea,

fill your Moleskine notebooks so jam-packed

with great ideas the world would fall down at your feet

if only they knew how creative you were.

But the trap lies in thinking that

coming up with the ideas is where the value is.

It isn’t.

The value lies in your ability to execute.

Forget all the hundreds of ideas. Pick one.

And do it. Then pick another, and do it too."

found it here and could not agree more!

So what is photography?

"So what is photography?

It’s less talk, more making photographs.

Do that, and do it hard. And then tomorrow, do it again.

And as long as you love doing that more than something else,

you’ll have filled your days and fed your soul

with something you love.

And to do that, by almost any sane definition, is to have succeeded."

Found it here.

Spare time

"But if you want to make a living,

you’ll have a much easier time

if you pick one area to which

you can direct your marketing.

Do it well,

charge well,

and you’ll have plenty of time

to pursue your hummingbird project or

photographing fire hydrants

with your iPhone in your spare time."

found it here.

Vision and Voice

This is yet another book from David duChemin and I am really looking forward to reading it. The book will be published by May 2010 so, until then, you have time to read other books :)

The amazon.com link of the book is here.

VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography

You can find more information about the book here. I pre-ordered it a month ago :)