California Ain't Half Bad...

I took a trip to explore California, or at least a few places.  I had this idea in mind several months ago and I just decided I would do it last minute.


Here is what I discovered and captured... (read on)

Change the art

If you are an artist of any kind and thats how you make a living, or that is how you wish to make a living, why is it that you chose such a career?

What it is for me is that art can inspire and change the world.  Just think of the picture of the student standing in front of the tank in Tianenmen Square.  There are countless images that have caused change in the world.

Whatever makes you free.

So in a constant pursuit of trying to make my mark in the photography world, I always check out other people's work.  I end up getting into a mind set of try to do what they do.  Well on the surface this is great because you need to see what is working on the outside world of making a career of photography.  You wouldn't show a magazine photo editor a portfolio that has a bunch of work that has a style that they wouldn't use.  So yeah, you need to be showing work that they want to see, so study up people.

However........