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by Richard Vanek
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What I want to achieve?

Tue 15th Sep, 2009
09:05
 
 

Dear friend,

I guess you are waiting for the new picture, well, I am sorry, but not this time. After my last writing, when I wrote you about technical details, I had need for something else to balance it. I went and read a lot, still do, some more books on my table waiting, even I do read rather lot every evening.

After I was done with the calibration processes and was in the middle of the reading I realize, actually I knew that for long time, that I need to make my photography work flow better. I started with some changes on web and than I moved all my 40k images to lightroom. All this took me a lot of time, but it all feel very good now and seems to work.

Last days I was playing with idea to submit my Serene Mind to lens culture international exposure awards. I wasn’t sure at the beginning, but I really believe this is nice way to, with bit of luck, become more visible.

And so, yesterday I did. I actually modified a little whole series and included some new images and excluded some other, which I will reflect on my web pages tonight. And in the middle of that I had in my mind question: Why I do this, what I want to achieve? I meant not only act of submitting my work to this particular event, but in more general about my photography.

Is there or should be there anything like the goal. One can feel perfectly comfortable with only creation. But I know me, I need audience I need to know that somebody enjoy it or hate it.

And I realize that probably, you are never sure, only thing I want is, that more people can see my work and if my images gave them some feelings they lost long time ago, when they help them to thing about events and relationships, I would be happiest person. And for that reason I like to make my images more accessible and to make possible that more people can find them.

All these thoughts are running in my head and if I listen to Ken Robinson (his book is waiting on my table) or I read article like this one by Josh Olson it is triggered even more that drive in my and enthusiasm.

I must say, I have a lot of ideas and who knows why I execute only few of them. Certainly I need to change that and I hope that participation of this lens culture award was a first step in that direction, my friend.

 
 

Comments:

  1. Dirk on Wed 16th Sep, 2009 at 02:21:

    Serene Mind looks good, perhaps even mature. Good luck!

    What do you want to achieve? I think often it’s either external recognition of yourself and your abilities or seeing to overcome your own limits of thinking (and therefore creativity). The second does not need the external recognition, although it probably needs feedback from the outside world. The two are slightly different.

  2. richo on Wed 16th Sep, 2009 at 08:16:

    I think from your choices I prefer the second with touch of feedback and a bit of the first choice :-D

  3. Matt Sawyer on Thu 24th Sep, 2009 at 07:44:

    Yea! I hope you get more visibility. You are an exceptionally talented photographer.

    I’d say, your photos may not necessarily remind me of my own memories, but they definitely transport me to a new place. This is something most photos cannot do.

    Keep up the good work.

  4. richo on Thu 24th Sep, 2009 at 08:02:

    Matt, Thanks a lot for words of encouragement

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