Play allows us to explore and to innovate and make things and pretend. When we play we are being creative.

The inspiration handed to you in a gallery or a book or on the Internet should be one that elevates you as an artist. It should pull you to wanting to make your work as powerful as what you are looking at. It is not about hype or being cool or making stuff up. It is about revealing truths.

Watch the video to see what I mean. Even the video doesn’t do it justice. You’d have to be standing in front of one to know what I mean.

It seems to me that nearly everyone has a different opinion of what photography might be, which seems to beg the questions:

For the following text, you might try substituting the words Artist, Painter, Writer, Actor with Photographer…

“…the eye and the camera see more than the mind knows.” – Nathan Lyons