My Other World
And that is the world of neon, yes my friends that’s what i do to bring the tortillas to the table, i make neon lights, and i also teach glass bending for neon, in this instance a student of mine opened and neon art exhibit, you see he is an artist and uses neon to…
Read MoreWho Are You
Why, i ask myself why is that we feel so obligated to belong to a group, maybe it’s the gene that tells us that we have to belong to a group in order to survive, that may be true, but, and here is the big but, inventions and creations and new things do not come…
Read MorePassion In Photography
Passion Is The Fuel In The Fire Of Action. In order to excel in what you do you have to have a passion about it, passion will make you do whatever you need to do to get to your goal. They say “Follow Your Passion” and it’s true you should follow your passion, actually, there…
Read MoreLosing Your Identity As A Photographer
Most photographers do not have an identity as photographers, or to put it another way, they follow the path of other photographers and leave their own path or their own identity hidden because they don’t think it’s important or they are afraid to put out there their real selves. So their photos reflect what they…
Read MoreFanatic Photographer VS Real Photographer
The Real Photographer will never talk about his camera because it’s just a tool, it’s like a wood worker talking all day long about his saw and never about his creations, so the real photographer will talk mainly about the experience, the feeling, the places he’s been to, the people he has met, he will…
Read MoreThe requirements For Letting Your Creativity Come Out
Creativity is equivalent to Freedom. If you are not mentally free you will have problems getting your creativity unstuck, it will be difficult for you to be creative. 1.-So first requirement is to be FREE. I will explain a bit further what i mean by free. When you have preconceived ideas of what photography should…
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Beautiful Things Don’t Ask For Attention
One of my favorite movies is “The secret life of Walter Mitty” with Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, I have read that this daydreaming and imagining things is the core of where books get their existence or where movies are also born, the movie has a lot of messages, basically it’s about somebody that has…
Read MoreThe Times Of Our Life
I was talking to a young man the other day, maybe in his 30s, and he told me “Man i wished i had been around in the 60s” and i told him, i was, i told him, no big deal, what’s so special about the 60s? i asked him, well he said, it was a…
Read MoreThe Boring Photographer
It was a beautiful day at the Oceanside Pier where they had a celebration called “The Festival Of Colors” a festival that originated in India and celebrates diversity on planet earth, the celebration consists of music of Indian rhythm dancing and colored powdered being blown from somewhere to the public.
Read MoreWhat Is A Good Photograph
Are you still stuck in the 1950s, when a beautiful photograph was only taken by pro photographers because they were the only ones that could
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