What is the number one most over used word in photography? I will give you a hint. It’s completely vague, it is devoid of any true meaning (in photography), due to it’s over use, and it appears in 99.9 percent of all photographer bio’s, blogs and statements. It is of course, the word PASSION. Yes, photographers are certainly passionate about the word passion. It appears that there is no better word in the english language to convey the importance of photography, to an individual, than the word passion. The dictionary definition for passion is.
1. Strong and barely controllable emotion.
2. An intense desire or enthusiasm for something.
3. Intense sexual desire. (kinky)
So it is safe to say that we ether have A. roving gangs of emotionally unstable photographers roaming the streets. Or B. just a few to many of us have been reading each other bio’s and trying to work the word passion into our own favor.
The point of this blog isn’t really about the word passion. It is about thinking for yourself. Isn’t that what photography and art is really all about? Get creative, not only with your pictures, but with your thoughts. Or even better yet. Drop the thoughts all together and allow the being-ness of who you are, to flow though you and into your art.
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