AzulOx exists for two reasons, to provide compelling imagery for clients and to serve as a vehicle to create works of art for Andrew and myself. This weeks motivation is going to talk about the latter part, creating photographs for an audience of one. Creating work that no one will see, and only for the […]
Inspiration
Pick One Thing and Never Change… Until You Do
Today’s Monday Motivation post is a bit of my back story, and also a “you aren’t alone” to other like me. I embraced my “unfocused” nature long ago and just tell people I’m weird. Emilie’s TED talk is spot on for me, and I suspect many other creatives. The same things that makes us “creative” […]
Monday Motivation: Happiness & Time Off
This week’s Monday Motivation is different. We focus here on how to improve, how to be inspired, and looking at great works. Today’s topic is about leaving the work that has to be done for others and finding the inpsiration and discipline to work for yourself in a way that benefits your future clients. Watch […]
Monday Motivation: I’m An Impostor and So Are You
Surely, this time they’ll find me out and recognize me for the impostor I am. It’s a common feeling and one experienced by some of the most unlikely sounding people you could imaging. A recent New York Times article noted that Maya Angelou, author of 11 books, winner of three Grammys as well as Pulitzer Prize and […]
Monday Motivation: Chef’s Table
You may think it’s strange that a cooking documentary on Netflix is on our photography inspiration, but when you consider the role of a photographer and a chef there are many overlaps. Both are service industries, both are creative professions, and both straddle the line from cheap commodity fast food all the way up to […]
Monday Motivation: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. – Dorothea Lange, quoted in: Los Angeles Times (13 Aug. 1978). Dorothea Lange was a pioneer of photography. Her photography was not only beautiful, but also world changing. She was one of the first to use photography to motivate social change, […]
Monday Motivation: Silver & Light
Iah Ruhter’s Silver and Light video is a touchstone film for me. The struggle to break free, to find your own path, to do those things that people say can’t or shouldn’t be done. The film came out three years ago and Ian’s future was uncertain. His work is now hanging in galleries. He took […]
Daily Inspiration: Joe McNally at Pix2015
Joe McNally is one of the pillars of the modern photography world. If you don’t know who he is, that’s fine, but he is someone you should listen too follow. His talk at PIX2015 was particularly inspirational for me as an aspiring professional photographer. We forget that everyone who is “at the top” got there […]