Love What You Do
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Love What You Do
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All you gotta do is love what you do.
If it’s a true passion that you hold deep within your heart and soul…
if love is what’s driving you…
you’ll become the master at what you love to do.
It’s gotta come from love.
That’s where most good things… and all truly great things come from.
I really love shooting people close up on the street.
It’s become a deep passion of both my heart and my soul.
Sometimes I dream about the people’s faces that I’ve shot…
Sometimes I dream about the shots I’ve missed.
Something was always pulling me in this direction.
For as long as I can remember.
I wanted to do this.
I always wanted to get closer.
But it wasn’t until I truly came to love it that I got any good.
Love brings an extra dimension to this endeavor.
I believe it’s an essential dimension to doing this.
People can feel it.
They react to it.
They respond to it.
They open up and they engage my lens.
In that moment they become a part of it.
If you love it… you’ll do it… and if you keep doing it because you keep loving it… you’ll get better and better.
I love it so much that sharing these shots with people who find them interesting or inspiring is really a reward in itself.
I wish I could convince everyone that they could do this if they just let go of the fear and felt the pull of the love just like I did.
If you’ve never shot a closeup shot of a person like this… try it out on your friends and your family.
They shouldn’t get too snappy with you.
Once you’ve become comfortable with the mechanics involved you can get yourself somewhere where there’s a bunch of people.
Drink a beer or three… let your courage build up… let the love in your heart shine and just do it.
Do it for love!
Do it this weekend!
Break through that barrier and you’ll thank me for tellin’ you that you could.
If you haven’t… you’ve got no idea how much fun it is… how rewarding it’ll be.
If you have… man… you know what I’m talking about.
Feel the love.
Let it take you places you could never have imagined that it would!
Faces on the street
Chicago 7.23.11
35mm 1.8 cropped square with contrast, exposure and color squeaked
Paul Westerberg ~ Meet Me Down the Alley
Love
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Simple Love… remember???
Love, what is it anyway? Do you even remember what a true love feels like?
I am sure, I should be the last person on earth to discuss about this topic, why… ? Because I am never good at it, but hey… that doesn’t mean I don’t know what I am talking about.
So do you remember that moment, when you were a child… let say, when you just start learning how to walk. And all you can say is… koo koo ka ka. Yes that moment, and while your dad, your mom, grandmom, grandpa, and your families are all trying to teach you how to walk. I would call that; love… the love that was given to us from our parent without asking for anything in return.
No, we never really understand what that love truly is. After we grow up in this world, the word of trade, capitalism, where if you give then you must get something in return. And that is how we generalize everything else along with it. We study hard to get good grade, work hard to earn more… everything is a competition… if you have more, or better… then you are “whatever it is” more than other.
So what happen to love? Love is no exception fell in the same scenario where if you love then you must do “all the criteria” to be love in return. And if you fail to do one, or if you do less than it mean that one love is not as strong as the other.
How do we really measure this thing call “love” ???
Really, I don’t know how. But I know for sure that, the love… the true love… should be very similar to those love that we received when we were child, back when everything is pure and innocent, when everything was unconditional.
It is not easy for us to do anything “unconditionally” because we always wanted “something” in return. But it isn’t impossible to do… we all can do anything unconditionally, we only do it “just because” we love that person, that little one… that we won’t even know how will they turn out when they grow up. But yet, we love the little one anyway.
So, to conclude this… I still don’t know what love is… but I believe that being unconditional is one of it criteria.
For the picture, it is one of the drives by photo that I took in San Francisco.
So… do you remember that moment?
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