I have to say thank you. Thank you so much for being different and giving. For sharing so much with total strangers. I’m glad that you ” don’t live or conform to society’s conventions. For me, I try to live my life authentically.” I have benefited from you and that form of freedom so much!

I also have the nasty habit of comparing my work to photographers I know are far above my skill level and wonder if I will ever be that creative. I read the interview you did recently with another photographer. I remember thinking I will probably never be “self-satisfied” with my own work because after every photo shoot I feel good about, that I am finally getting it, I find another photographer on flickr and elsewhere that puts my work to shame. I usually end up spending hours trying to figure out how they lit it and composed it in order to understand it. I feel that by understanding their methods and techniques their work doesn’t intimidate me anymore because I understand how it was done and could now do as well or better.

Since I found your blog it has really gone a long way to inspire me to keep on keepin on and to hone my craft and just get out there! Your candidness and honesty have really been great for someone like me trying to start out their career. Thank you for everything.

For me photography is a way of creating magic, a magic which true understanding is mine alone. Been it for the good or for the bad. My life experiences definitely feed my work and usually the way i trigger my inspiration is by intensifying a life experience. I’m not afraid of strong emotions for they feed my work, which is usually what people run away from for the risk of it.
One of the things that really get me going is music definitely. When you are depressed, what can get you to sink even deeper? Music! i know sounds kinda masochist but i think you as an artist can understand what i mean…if not then i guess i’m the only weirdo but thats the way i personally work to get something out of my emotions, something worth the bother…
About the voice? oh i cant even tell you how often that chases me, specially because i’m a self taught artist and when i compare myself to people who are out there…well lets just say it don’t always feel good…Also not living in a country where i can develop my skills on the field doesnt really help and makes it twice as difficult…
But what gets me going is the art itself…Why do i do it? I don’t do it to compete with the big fishes out there, I do it because its my need to communicate, the way i express myself even when the project doesn’t really express my thoughts i can still bend it and blend a bit of me in it and thats the challenge for me.

BTW I think with this one i just got hooked on your blog, i want to tell you i like the honesty you come across with, makes us understand we are not alone after all…

Perhaps as you allude in your post, good results often come because of your eye being able to see the world rather than the technical diagrams of sophisticated instruments.

But it was a lot harder that I thought, it was like my camera was a stranger to me and I wanted to shoot with it so badly but I just didn’t know what!!

Anyway, I too also get that voice in my head that tells me I’m no good, I should just give up as so and so is doing it better and faster than me.

It’s taken me a long time, about a year, but I’ve finally given myself enough of a push to get the hell out there and just do it!! I’ve now got a few very exciting shoots booked over the next month and I can’t wait to see the outcome!!

It’s nice to know even the best out there feel the same way I do at some point or another!