Which is reassuring because if I was the same person that I was three years ago then not only would I not be any smarter or brighter, but I'd be bloody annoying. It wont be going up on dA anytime soon though. I've worked on writing a story, and I just passed 20,000 words. It was a fantastic experience, but I was limited in terms of transport, time, money, and (not without shame) enthusiasm. I spent a few years working for the 2020VISION project (check it out, it's really neat, buy a book and you'll see some of my shots) which documents environmental awareness, highlighting the relationship between man and nature. Yeah, I don't really know, but a massive need for creative scope is lacking. Not the "lets look at what happened 10,000 years ago" kind, but more the "people need to know what happened here about ten minutes later". I'm not sure what I'd call it it's not art because there is no room for expression, there is room for creativity but you can't photographed something in a biased fashion it's not a science because it isn't discovering anything through rigour if anything, it's like history. Photojournalism is great and all, but it's a documentary style thing. Now, my creative spirits have been channeled into photojournalism in the same way your shiny new watch gets channeled down the toilet. To anybody starting out in photographs, I have two pieces of advice: experiment, for the love of God do it while you can. I pushed the technical boundaries as far as I could and although most the stuff was certainly an epic failure, I learnt a hell of a lot. Although I'd only be proud of 10% of the crap on there, I learnt how to learn Photoshop up to a degree level. Looking back at most of those photographs makes me wince a little. Thought that looked good, in the same way that doing that to a lamp post seems like a good idea when you're drunk. I grew out of that style of photography though, that style being opportunistic still-lifes found around my local area, photographs that have had the whole caliber of photoshop unleashed upon them, and clunky compositions that I thought that looked good at the time.
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