I'm a photographer. As a photographer I'm repulsed by cropping.
As a Society we crop to much out of our photographs and our lives. Every thing has to be "perfect", well what if it wasn't wasn't meant to be perfect? What if it was meant to be what it is. Sit back and enjoy the big picture for a bit. If it's in frame maybe it was meant to be in frame. One of the big reasons I like looking at old photographs is because of what they didn't crop. They took the photograph for what it was. I love to see a photograph with lots of "stuff" in the frame, a box of cereal, a bottle of Pepsi, a 1977 Buick. It all just adds to the story for me.
Every time I document something I take my wide angle lens, I take in as much of the world and surroundings as I can. Personally I find photography as a window into the past, and if that's the only view I have why would I want to leave anything out? I find that background and foreground are just as important as the subject in my work. I feel like there are too many one dimensional photographs as well as people in the world today. Enjoy your environment, experience your environment, sell your environment. There is no bad environment to take a photograph, there are however bad framing, composure, and exposure.
Don't worry about finding the perfect place to start photographing before you get started, the perfect place to photograph will find you as you work. Take your time, smell the daisies, and you'll notice something interesting as your smelling those daisies.
If you must crop, crop with your lens.
Tuesday
Monday
Bullying And The Art Of Education
Bullying is a crock of shit... If it wasn't such a damn crime to stick up for yourself, then maybe bullying wouldn't be a problem. From birth it's drilled in hour damn heads to never cause trouble, never question anything, never talk back, don't fight even if we're right. Maybe that's the problem... For the love of god fucking stand up for yourself.
It's nature, if you're weak you're a target. Hawks eat rabbits because they can, snakes eat frogs because they can, people fuck with other people because they can. Because they can, that's the reason most bad things happen in life. If you lay back and take it someones going to fuck you. it's a fact. I've never been fucked with much in my life because I won't take it, and they know I won't take it.
The education system in America has doomed all of our futures. They taught us how to be good test takers rather than functional human beings in this day and time. Anyone under the age of 30 can't fail... In high school they are automatically given easier classes when their perfectly capable of passing regular classes with a little more effort. In college they're put on "academic probation" "one more chance" that never seems to run out. On the work force they're the idiots that human resources protects, they fuck up and you're in trouble for telling them they fucked up. It's a damn shame that you can't even call out a dumb-fuck coworker for some kind of dumb-fuckery that elementary school could have fixed with a few simple corrective actions in the right direction.
I feel there is a misconception in the world that you're either a leader or a follower, a "sheep" or a "Shepard" well what about the beat farmer who doesn't want anything to do with damn life stock or the Shepard??? I don't want to lead, I don't want to follow, I just want to be left be... I just want to rise my damn beats in peace and I want the sheep and the Shepard out of my damn garden...
I'm not sure if anyone has saw this video yet but I wholeheartedly agree with what the man is saying, but I don't agree with how he's saying it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3azpcltLSTM
It's nature, if you're weak you're a target. Hawks eat rabbits because they can, snakes eat frogs because they can, people fuck with other people because they can. Because they can, that's the reason most bad things happen in life. If you lay back and take it someones going to fuck you. it's a fact. I've never been fucked with much in my life because I won't take it, and they know I won't take it.
The education system in America has doomed all of our futures. They taught us how to be good test takers rather than functional human beings in this day and time. Anyone under the age of 30 can't fail... In high school they are automatically given easier classes when their perfectly capable of passing regular classes with a little more effort. In college they're put on "academic probation" "one more chance" that never seems to run out. On the work force they're the idiots that human resources protects, they fuck up and you're in trouble for telling them they fucked up. It's a damn shame that you can't even call out a dumb-fuck coworker for some kind of dumb-fuckery that elementary school could have fixed with a few simple corrective actions in the right direction.
I feel there is a misconception in the world that you're either a leader or a follower, a "sheep" or a "Shepard" well what about the beat farmer who doesn't want anything to do with damn life stock or the Shepard??? I don't want to lead, I don't want to follow, I just want to be left be... I just want to rise my damn beats in peace and I want the sheep and the Shepard out of my damn garden...
I'm not sure if anyone has saw this video yet but I wholeheartedly agree with what the man is saying, but I don't agree with how he's saying it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3azpcltLSTM
Wednesday
Druggie Girls...
So I've been trying to talk to this girl lately, send a text here and there. Recently I haven't been getting responses as often. I do what I feel is natural and call her out on it. This is her Response:
"I'm a little stoner" What... The... Fuck...
Every girl I've met in the last six months is married, engaged, or a drug addict. I really don't get why you would need to be self medicated 24 7 if your life is that horrible maybe there are some proactive counter measures that you could take to have a better life. I understand everyone has their vices, personally I enjoy alcohol, but I can't remember the last time I spent a week strait drunk out of my gourd. I have a few drinks then I sober up and come back to the real world.
Recently I was talking to a girl, seemed like a nice chick, had a few weird things going on with her personality that I could over look, but then she gets started on the topic of getting fucked up. This girl can't go a day with out being fucked up in some form or fashion. I'm standing there speechless as shes listing off the shit she does on a weekly basis. Personally I can't see what the big draw is.
As of last week I had a good friend who had disappeared off the face off the earth, I had wondered about her but I figured she was off living her life somewhere. I just found out that she had came out of three months of rehab, which don't get me wrong I'm so grateful for that fact. but she's 19... Rehab shouldn't even be a thought at that point in your life. To me it's kind of like a car accident, it's one thing to have your car go out of control because some problem arises, but it's quite another to just floorboard it to see how many times you can fucking flip...
I'm just soooooo damn tired of these dead beats that have so much potential but are too damn stoned to realize it. If you can't sit back and take a break and enjoy what's about you I think there is something pretty fucking wrong. Hell, if you don't like it, change it, don't numb it... I can't wait until people start enjoying cocktails and beer again.
"I'm a little stoner" What... The... Fuck...
Every girl I've met in the last six months is married, engaged, or a drug addict. I really don't get why you would need to be self medicated 24 7 if your life is that horrible maybe there are some proactive counter measures that you could take to have a better life. I understand everyone has their vices, personally I enjoy alcohol, but I can't remember the last time I spent a week strait drunk out of my gourd. I have a few drinks then I sober up and come back to the real world.
Recently I was talking to a girl, seemed like a nice chick, had a few weird things going on with her personality that I could over look, but then she gets started on the topic of getting fucked up. This girl can't go a day with out being fucked up in some form or fashion. I'm standing there speechless as shes listing off the shit she does on a weekly basis. Personally I can't see what the big draw is.
As of last week I had a good friend who had disappeared off the face off the earth, I had wondered about her but I figured she was off living her life somewhere. I just found out that she had came out of three months of rehab, which don't get me wrong I'm so grateful for that fact. but she's 19... Rehab shouldn't even be a thought at that point in your life. To me it's kind of like a car accident, it's one thing to have your car go out of control because some problem arises, but it's quite another to just floorboard it to see how many times you can fucking flip...
I'm just soooooo damn tired of these dead beats that have so much potential but are too damn stoned to realize it. If you can't sit back and take a break and enjoy what's about you I think there is something pretty fucking wrong. Hell, if you don't like it, change it, don't numb it... I can't wait until people start enjoying cocktails and beer again.
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