Writing- Author

Living Up to The Creator I Think I Am

Living Up to The Creator I Think I Am

As an artist over half of my job is imagining the work I am going to create before I create it. The issue arises from the fact that the creator I am in my head is sometimes in direct conflict with the creative skills I currently have. It is that conflict that I think of often, to the point I even verbalized how hard it was to compete with the artist I am in my head to a friend.

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What Comes After Writing A Book?

What Comes After Writing A Book?

I spent two years following the release of my Rodeo photography book writing an actual book. Two soul crushing years spent in reflection, with my thoughts, staring at blank pages, soul searching, micro-focusing, and working my fingers off. I thought the finish line— releasing/ publishing my book— would bring a joy to me, would make me feel like everything was worth it.

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Let Me Read You My Story

Let Me Read You My Story

As many of you know I am hard at work on my first non-fiction memoir. Let me entice you with the blurb from the back.

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Lessons of Friendship: Is It Real or Not?

Lessons of Friendship: Is It Real or Not?

Sometimes in my own head it feels like I purposely set up a friendship to fail. In some ways I definitely did, I can take ownership of that because the friend did exactly as I anticipated, and knowing that part of me feels responsible for helping push the wheel in motion. But they say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I had to push this wheel to confirm what I knew was already true. That our friendship had been over for awhile and I was simply being used because I didn’t want to end something I put so much of myself into.

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Defining Yourself as a Photographer!

Defining Yourself as a Photographer!

Defining yourself as a photographer is the first major step in being a photographer. You can have a camera, you can take pictures but until you believe you are a photographer you simply are just a person who takes snap shots.

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