If you wait around to read the email when it pours into your inbox, will you ever have time to take pictures?
How many ideas will you miss by chasing the next best thing rather than finishing the project you’ve already started?
If you continue taking those crappy gigs that generate dogpoop looking photos or films, will you ever have time to create the ones you want?
What is the cost of doing things that your industry says are “normal”?
How many pictures will you let pass you by if you wait till you get a better camera, better lights, or better vision?
If you do what your teacher tells you to do without pushing the boundaries of photo school, will your work look just like everybody’s in your class?
How old will you be when you finally quit your day job because it sucks?
When was the last time you …created an uninterrupted day for yourself to do the things that you wanted to do, rather than attended to “obligations” that weren’t really obligations at all?
It’s great to please the world. To be a citizen, to answer the phone, to go out of your way, to… to…. to… But every once in a while, it’s healthy to do things on your own terms. Take a break from reacting and choose your own adventure this weekend.
My mind races when I watch your BTS & Commercial vids with ideas I haven’t seen.
– Ball or object point-of-view with DSLR(D3s for you.5DMkII for us). Footfall from quarterback to receiver. Closes thing I’ve seen was a camera guy following a soccerball until it his him in the nuts while shooting.
Just saying thanks . . . Chucktown, SC
Don’t Worry I’m doing my thang.
I’ve started thinking about these questions a lot lately. Work coming slowed a bit during December through the beginning of February. I decided it was time to stop sitting around thinking about what to do and just go out and start experimenting again, practice some new techniques etc. It has definitely helped me get over this slow period.
Chase you are the most inspiring person i know. Thanks for your love.
Chase,
Thanks for the post!
Like alway very inspiration, drives me to do/even try things different.
Soooooo true, not so easy sometimes! I think I’ll schedule a personal day and go out and play. Nice reminder!!!