Unashamed
I think one of the biggest hurdles aspiring photographers face is just taking out their camera in the first place. People get shy on both ends of the lens but there's no excuse for the one behind it. I arrived in a remote part of Ecuador along with a coffee roaster from Equator Estate Coffees & Teas in San Francisco. I had a job to do but it'd have been no different if I'd been there on my own. I popped out of the pickup and engaged the awaiting farmers. I am a photographer. That's what we do.
The greatest light I'd seen in a while was bouncing through this cement structure and whoever sat in it was going to be documented if I was around. This guy took the brunt of it and would vacillate between seriousness and laughter. He'd never been shot this many times in such rapid succession that he was at once bemused and amused with all the attention I was giving him.
The point is, just make the pictures. If you are there with good intentions and have made them relatively clear, you should feel no shame or shyness. Your task is to honor your calling to make strong photographs.
(Forgive the OCC stuff. I just upload one of my "postcards" to share instead of keeping it clean. You get the idea).
Make pictures.
The greatest light I'd seen in a while was bouncing through this cement structure and whoever sat in it was going to be documented if I was around. This guy took the brunt of it and would vacillate between seriousness and laughter. He'd never been shot this many times in such rapid succession that he was at once bemused and amused with all the attention I was giving him.
The point is, just make the pictures. If you are there with good intentions and have made them relatively clear, you should feel no shame or shyness. Your task is to honor your calling to make strong photographs.
(Forgive the OCC stuff. I just upload one of my "postcards" to share instead of keeping it clean. You get the idea).
Make pictures.
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