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.
Great post Chase. It’s good to have a kick in the nuts (maybe not literally) every now and then. There’s always an excuse out there.
You’re talking to me, right?
“How old will you be when you finally quit your day job because it sucks? “
Quit my day job because it sucked last year. Now, have to be careful of taking on those “dogpoop” jobs Chase mentions above, just because I need to take every photo job that can possibly come my way now that it is my sole source of income.
Have coincidentally been in a similar mood to this post tonight. Even wrote my own photo story about it, describing a day of pure Freedom I had in Thailand on a day I was really alive:
http://jasoncollinphotography.com/blog/2010/4/28/nobody-told-me-thered-be-days-like-these.html
why am I sitting here reading this blog………..I’m off to conquer the world and do what the hell I please!
Wow man, this really hit a soft spot, but thanks a lot, I needed it. Btw, luv the new site.