Journal

Domesticated or Wild?

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Domesticated animal or wild predator? If you’re a stuck-at-home person, you may be considered as a domesticated herd animal. If you prefer to be out in the real world then you may consider yourself a wild predator, untamed.

This pandemic has me feeling more and more like a domesticated herd animal and less a feral, wild, untamed animal and I don’t like it.

Now I know what a predator in a zoo feels like and one can empathize.

Technical Issues

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If you think technology will solve your problems then you don’t understand technology – and, you don’t understand your problems.

Laurie Anderson

Find the best tool for a specific job and stick with it. This is better said than done for me since I enjoy trying all the new shiny tools to play with out there. I am getting better at this and narrowed them down to a select few for writing, post-process photography, etc.

Take Charge

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“Nothing about the Internet is fixed, permanent, or inevitable. It is malleable, shape-shifting, and constantly evolving. And it increasingly comes with more responsibility and risks for guarding our own data and taking charge of distributing our words and images.”

EI Skyers

This sums up nicely what I’ve been referring to when it comes to owning your platform. Build a blog, delete your social media account(s), dump Google mail and get your personalized e-mail address, and distribute your words and images your way.

3 Rules

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My three rules about existing as a hobbyist artist/photographer:

  • Just keep making pictures.
  • Your work will be seen when it’s ready to be seen.
  • Network gracefully.

Photographic Form

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“…taking pictures is incidental. It’s a by-product, in a sense, of everything else. What you’re really doing is giving form—photographic form—to a thought, to an opinion, to an understanding of the world, of what is in front of you.”

Someone