I may not be good at it but I love to do it. I like to take pride in my photos. I'm still learning as I go. I've never really been good at anything but what I do love to do is taking a camera everywhere I go. I don't share a lot of my photos mainly for the criticism. I don't like to take the ones that you have to work for. I like taking the random ones. I had entered a photo on a small board for a gallery showing a while ago. I had help from my partner. Never thought something like a photo on a board would sell, but it did. Due to it being in the show I was able to enter another piece and this time it was an actual framed photo. It didn't sell. I'm going to be honest and say I don't mind when it doesn't get sold because I get a kick out of you seeing it. When the gallery owner found out that the photo didn't sell he told me not to stick with photography. He didn't really care for that (art). I mean anyone can take a photo, right? He made it seam easy as if anyone can do it.
This is what I do. I'm not the painter, the musician, or the professional photographer. I just do what I do. A few weeks ago there was another call to artists but this time to photographers. You would have three days to go down Deep Ellum and shoot a photo of anything happening that was going on in Deep Ellum this particular weekend. The topic was when you think of Deep Ellum, what comes to mind? Most of my time spent in Deep Ellum was day light walks. I wanted to see how different it was to capture a photo of Deep Ellum at night. I found out about it on Thursday and on Saturday night we were roaming the streets with my camera. Had fun doing it, one of my favorite things to do in this world is walking and taking pictures. I had taken a few shots so I had to narrow it down to one photo and that alone was tough. Come Monday I had to drop it off. That same Thursday the viewing of the others photographers photos were to be displayed. We got there late and to my surprise my photo had already been sold. I picked the one with the young lady standing on a car holding two signs that read "will rap for weed" across from Trees (music venue). This is what I think about when I think of Deep Ellum. Deep Ellum to me is local music. Not necessary that she would rap for weed but the fact that music is the number one factor that describes Deep Ellum.
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| had the doors open so everyone could hear the music |
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| check out that line at ten pm |
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| slaughter haunted house friend |
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| graffiti art even on the potty |
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| zombie hunters |
What is now ironic to me is that the one man that didn't think photography was even an art, a form of expressing oneself just cut me a check for my photo. His words when he gave me the check were " you are now a professional photographer" you would think that that feeling of someone calling me a professional photographer would have made me feel good but it didn't. I've sold photos before and have sold them for charities but here was a man that didn't even know me that has told me to not stick with photography had now classified me as "professional" because he physically handed me money for doing it, photography.
I find in my life
many ironic things.
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