What’s Your Photography Dream?

My goals, ideas and knowledge have all been growing and improving since I first picked up a camera all those years ago.

But for the first time ever, I feel as if I have a direction for my photography to go in.

It’s like a solving a Rubiks’ Cube. Every twist and turn is technically progress, and getting you closer to solving the puzzle, but it’s not until the pieces start to click together that you are starting to see and achieve your goal.

I feel like everything I learnt and experinced in 2011, was vital and important progress, but nothing really “clicked” together.

But in the last month, things have started to fall in to place in my head and heart, so much that I feel so energised and excited by what direction I want to go in.

For the first time ever, I know what I want to do. I finally have my photography dream.

I want this blog to be great.

I mean really great. I want it to be a source of inspiration and useful ideas, for as many photographers as I can possibly share it with. I want to return the favour to all of those amazing photographers I have learned from so far, and help out those new artists who, like me, had no idea what I was doing at the beginning.

I want my photos to be special.

I want to take special, timeless, beautiful portraits. I want to rely on natural light and beautiful prime lenses, to bring out the emotion and spirit in my subjects. I want my images to be timeless and beautiful, more like a classical painting than a digital image. I want to shoot film. I want to make big pictures out of the little things in life. I want to make people smile.

I want to be a photographer, because I want to be.

I don’t want this for the money. I want fun. I don’t want to get so involved with the ruthlessness of business that I forget why I am doing this. I want to be a an artist and a photographer, and I want to enjoy every single second of it.

Finally, now I know where I want to go, I can concentrate on the things I need todo to get there. I can’t wait!

Do you have a photography dream? Whether it’s big or small, please let me know in the comments below!

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