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I don't take my work seriously?

Journal Entry: Sun Jun 28, 2009, 8:50 PM
  • Mood: Artistic
  • Listening to: "Am I Inside" by Alice in Chains
  • Reading: White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison
  • Watching: Supernatural
  • Playing: Clusterfuck
  • Eating: Stuff.
  • Drinking: Coffee
I know people like my funny entries, but this is a little more of a serious note...

It's always interesting when someone else tells you how your work ethic is. My response is usually caught between a laugh and an exclamation of "WTF?" But it so happened this week that someone informed me that because I have made no plans for photography to be my career and because I don't consider myself a "professional" that it only follows that I somehow don't take my photographic work seriously.

I've already responded to that individual, but I wanted to address here what photography means to me and how I feel about where I am now.

Photography was never my first love. It was not my second, or even third love. It was something I discovered because my father loved his medium format film camera and showed me how to use it. It wasn't something I was particularly interested in until I was 16 and took self portraits. I've never really thought much about my camera and the kind of photos I take with it. The individual who made the aforementioned comment remarked on how "sad" it was that I didn't consider myself talented. It's not that I don't consider myself "talented", but just that I don't think very much about it at all. Thoughts of how "good" I am don't cross my mind.

Perhaps I'm abnormal or was just raised differently, but there have always been more important things to me than obsessing over how good/bad I am at something. I'll confess that I actually flush and feel somewhat embarrassed when I happen upon my work in a forum and people compliment it. It's not that I don't feel worthy (indeed, I feel honoured and humbled) as much as I don't often spend time considering the worth of my work, or what it means to other people. I don't consider myself to be "unique" or "original" because that's not something I strive for. What's important to me is the aesthetics and the meaning involved in a photograph. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but the meaning has to exist in some form for me.

I'm a storyteller. Writing and telling stories has, and always will be, my first love. Photography is another aspect of how I express emotion, but I could never make it into anything more than that. Sometimes I wonder if pursuing it as a career would take that value away from it. So it's not that I don't take my work seriously enough to pursue it as a career, but because I value it too much as a form of expression to risk it. Some people do just fine balancing their career and their art, but I will keep it separate in this manner because it's the right choice for me. And I'll keep "talent" out of my thoughts all together. The only thing that keeps photography fresh for me isn't through praise or reassurance of my ability, but through my affection for communicating stories and emotions. I don't need to acknowledge myself as a "professional" to keep that. :)

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  • Current Residence: Captain Hook's Pirate Ship
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: Adult size. Or at least something that fits my boobs.
  • Print preference: Something interesting. With pretty stuff. Pretty darkness.
  • Interests: Capturing leprechauns, searching for unicorns, fighting cougars with my bare hands
  • Favourite movie: Moulin Rouge, Quills, Arsenic and Old Lace, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Favourite band or musician: AC/DC, Tool, NIN, A Perfect Circle, Ludovico Einaudi, Angelspit, The Cult, Alice in Chains
  • Favourite genre of music: I love everything except rap and country.
  • Favourite artist: JW Waterhouse
  • Favourite poet or writer: Richelle Mead, Kim Harrison, Sherrilyn Kenyon, LJ Smith, Karen Marie Moning, JR Ward, Rachel Caine
  • Favourite photographer: Sally Mann, Jerry Uelsmann, Aaron Hawks, David LaChapelle, Sarah Silver, Robert Randall
  • Favourite style of art: Rainbows and unicorns.
  • Operating System: Windows XP = shit.
  • MP3 player of choice: My brain.
  • Shell of choice: Body armour.
  • Wallpaper of choice: Something cheery, preferably with kittens.
  • Skin of choice: My own, maybe with a better tan.
  • Favourite game: Candyland.
  • Favourite gaming platform: Mt. Everest.
  • Favourite cartoon character: George Bush II
  • Personal Quote: "Fuck your fucking bananas!" --said while playing Mario Kart.
  • Tools of the Trade: Canon XTi, 18-55mm, 85mm f/1.8, PS CS4, Peanut Butter, a good model, and lots of sexual puns.

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Thanks! :D

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” --George Carlin (RIP, you old bastard)
Thank you so much! I'm glad you like the dark romance series. :hug:

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” --George Carlin (RIP, you old bastard)
Thanks! :D

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” --George Carlin (RIP, you old bastard)
Aw, thank you so much! :glomp:

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” --George Carlin (RIP, you old bastard)
Aw, thank you so much! Good luck with your photos. I hope they turn out for you. :hug:

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” --George Carlin (RIP, you old bastard)
You are most welcome! And thank you :D

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~Inspiration still lingers in the comments that have been written months ago.
Jeana~
Aw, thank you so much for your kind words! :hug: I prefer Aurie. Elizabeth's just my legal name. :)

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” --George Carlin (RIP, you old bastard)
you are beautiful,reminded me of a russian fetish model alina fetish!

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welcome to my autumn..
Never heard of her! Link?

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” --George Carlin (RIP, you old bastard)
here you are:
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welcome to my autumn..

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