Concerning all acts of creation
Neil December 30th, 2009
“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth –
that the moment one definately commits oneself, then, Providence moves, too.”
–Van Goethe
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The moment one definitely commits oneself
Neil December 20th, 2009
“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth — that the moment one definately commits oneself, then, Providence moves, too.”
–Van Goethe
Tao 43 : advantages of non-ado
Neil December 19th, 2009
with thanksgiving
Tao 43
The softest of all things
Overrides the hardest of all
Only Nothing can enter in to no-space.
Hence I know the advantages of Non-Ado.
Few things under heaven are as instructive as the lessons of Silence,
Or as beneficial as the fruits of Non-Ado.
Lao Tzu, John C.H. Wu
from one traveller to another,,,
Neil July 10th, 2009
from one traveller to another,,, on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
you are where you are.
and it is a lovely place to begin. even if it’s painful, even if it’s not where you saw yourself 10 years ago, or 10 months, or 10 days. it’s lovely because it’s what you have, and what you have is so much more than so many others are gifted with,,, more than you often give yourself credit for.
Stop Trying To Sell Clients What They Don’t Want
Neil July 9th, 2009
Stop Trying To Sell Clients What They… | Gather
My first reaction was to be a “photographer” and explain all the reasons why she shouldn’t take the photograph as she wanted but rather have a superior product that I would create using my enormous talent. She wanted beef, I was trying to sell her pork (which is ironic since most Traditional Russian People don’t eat pork, but you get the meaning!)
Even though I was smiling and nice on the outside, I was furious, a monkey and a camera could have taken a shot like this and here they were wasting my precious time. I had half-a-mind to leave and give them their money back, but as I thought of all the bills I needed to pay (when you think you, as the photographer, know more about what your client should have then they as the client do, money is often in short supply), I swallowed my pride and did the image.
The images came back from the lab (days of film) and we did a projection appointment. I was sure when this family saw how plain and dated these images looked they would apologize for their error in judgment and want to reshoot them. The outcome was a little different than I expected, they were thrilled with the images and proceeded to spend twice as much as the largest order I had ever had sold (to that point in my career).
The Golden concept
Neil December 19th, 2008
Here’s a personal introduction for the Golden Touch Series
The Golden Touch package of products is my contribution to a holistic method of thinking and experimenting with a particular style of images/imagery. The core training piece is a 720p HD training video that is my creative brainstorm + technical tips + workflow tricks + guided meditation. I think it’s a unique experience and tremendous value at a running time of 1h. The video training is my most hardcore advice on powerful color correcting tips that push color theory to the max; daily workflow advice from a guy who processes a few thousand images a week; to heartfelt searching and receiving inspiration. I believe this set of tools will pay you back 10 times your investment as you incorporate the golden look into your artistry.
The Golden Touch Series:
- Golden Touch Video Tutorial = training + inspiration $19 for 1hr HD video
- Golden Touch Texture Package = working materials for altering your photos $39
- Complete Package – SAVE $10 – buy them all for $49
- Golden Touch Monochrome Photoshop Action <–free
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Coming soon as a followup – the Vintage package
Calling and Talent – live seminar sponsored by LiveBooks
Neil December 9th, 2008
Complimentary Webinar: >>register here<<
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Part Three:
What if Everything You Have Learned
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Is Photography Your Calling?
Thursday, December 11th
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Calling and Talent
Vision is a calling. A calling is an inner urge or a strong impulse, a passion, some believe a calling may be divinely inspired. How will the world be a different place as a result of your visit on the planet? What is your calling? What is it that you feel the urge and passion to bring into being no matter what?
Do you have a natural marked innate ability, for artistic accomplishment? That is a definition of talent. Talent and calling must be present to sustain a career as a professional photographer in the first decade of this new century.
- Learn How to Set Goals that Don’t End Up in the Back of a Drawer.
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- I will help you articulate your calling
- and find ways to stay on your path.
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Gratefully,
Mind Like Water: Tao 41 – Following
Neil December 6th, 2008
When the great man learns the Way,
he follows it with diligence;
When the common man learns the Way,
he follows it on occasion;
When the mean man learns the Way,
he laughs out loud;
Those who do not laugh, do not learn at all.
Therefore it is said:
Who understands the Way seems foolish;
Who progresses on the Way seems to fail;
Who follows the Way seems to wander.
For the finest harmony appears plain;
The brightest truth appears coloured;
The richest character appears incomplete;
The bravest heart appears meek;
The simplest nature appears inconstant.
The square, perfected, has no corner;
Music, perfected, has no melody;
Love, perfected, has no climax;
Art, perfected, has no meaning.
The Way can be neither sensed nor known:
It transmits sensation and transcends knowledge.
Why are you an artist?
Neil December 3rd, 2008
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Things ar not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are enexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.
….Therefore save yoruself from these general themes and seek those which your own everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty–describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objets of your memory. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. And even if you were in some prision the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses–would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? Turn your attention thither. Try to raise the submerged sensations of that ample past; your personality will grow more firm, your solitude will widen and will become a dusky dwelling past which the noise of others goes by far away. And if out of this turning inward, out of this absorption into your own world verses come, then it will not occur to you to ask anyone whether they are good verses. Nor will you try to interest magazines in your poems: for you will see in them your fond natural possession, a fragment and a voice of your life. A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity. In this nature of its origin lies the judgment of it: there is no other. Therefore, my dear sir, I know no advice for you save this: to go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and find everything in himself and in Nature to whom he has attached himself.
Motivation audio course
Neil December 1st, 2008
Understand photographic lighting from a new perspective
A perspective that empowers you to create, understand and succeed
Listen to the full 1 hour live presentation by Neil of his introductory lecture for the Make Light Real Workshop. The lecture outline will take you on a thought-path that will not teach you the right answers, but the right questions. Listen through a guided meditation by Neil and move yourself into a higher plane of creativity when you put the principles to work.
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