So I spent a ton of time updating parts of my portfolio yesterday. Lot’s of new or updated shots in the World section of my portfolio. I have more people, travel and food work to add too. I’ll hopefully get that stuff up tomorrow and you can see what I’ve been up to lately.

I have been reading a lot lately as well. Good books. Heavy words. Things to live by.

Today has been a hazy day where I just feel out of it. Maybe I’m tired. Maybe there are too many intense conversations going on at once. Or maybe it’s time to try to simplify life.

Oh yea! The reason I started writing this in the first place. Photography. Art. Creation. Storytelling.

Connecting the dots between people, and stories to create life. It’s why I get up in the morning.

Beyond all of that I’ve been pondering how people take photos and what they look like. It’s a technology issue as much as it is a decision about art vs. a product. Some photographers I know shoot because they love to, and the images show that passion. Others shoot for money, or for I don’t know what. And you can tell. Some people shoot what’s popular and looks good right now. It’s what is in. What someone will print in a magazine or slap on a book cover. Other people shoot because they want to create something powerful, an image that speaks, to tell a story.

So why do you do what you do?

“There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.” -Brassai