If you'd asked me two weeks ago what I was going to do when I left Missoula I'd have given you a pretty comprehensive answer, at least as far as the photography goes. Ask me today and you'd get a more cautious answer. It would be rather vague as I am still working it out, it would also be an answer that was more passionate and a truer reflection of myself I'm sure.
One of the early posts on this blog featured a song that a fellow student had posted on the student bulletin board. It came to mean a lot to a few folks here. With one week to go on the last of the five courses here at RMSP I realise the song and the moment have come round again and I'm once more only days away from change. Here it is again.. click to listen.
So what's happened? Well over the course of this summer we've had a range of photography based professionals come to talk to us. It was during a couple of these talks in the past two weeks that I realised I need more than just skill with a camera. I need to connect my vision and a passion if I am to be different. Cameras tend to reveal what's inside you as well as what's in front of the lens. And looking at some photos I had to show in class I was reminded of the vision and passion that have been with me for a few years now... and which in a way I'd lost sight of in my rush to plan. I also realised that bringing those qualities to the types of photo work I want to do are not just nice to have, they are essential. That's why I'll set about the list of things I have to do back home with a different emphasis and with revised priorities.
There won't be too many more blog posts in this blog, and with all the work and other changes there have been less than I'd expected over recent weeks. I'll carry on writing though, sometimes they'll be as posts in my other blog, seenfrommycorner.blogspot.com, as and when things catch my eye. I also have in mind a new blog on my new photography website which I'm working to set up at the moment.
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2 comments:
This is such a bittersweet time. I remember it like it was yesterday...
Just enjoy the moments. It will go by so fast!
And that question people keep asking you will continue to be asked for years. You will change and evolve in ways you can't even imagine at this point. Just be open to it! Congrats!! :)
Daviego, your words hit home with me as I deal with post-RMSP life. So much of my time has been spent trying to figure out how I want to incorporate photography into my life. What I want to do, what makes me happy, saying no to assignments that i know will lead me away from my love of my camera and my passion. I've been reading "Zen and the Magic of Photography - learning to see and be through photography". check it out. I've also had to keep reminding myself that my photography is as unique as I am and to keep being true to myself and my work. thanks for the call this morning - it renewed me to hear your voice. DRESSEL
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