I met up with a younger photographer today. I usually don't like to do this type of stuff that often anymore because I feel like I've been giving the same advice for the last 8 years haha but I get it. The cycle you go through as a person and as an artist is all the same in some sense. Every year I get an influx of new people who ask the same questions to me that they are asking of themselves and every year I five the same answers. It's like I'm stuck teaching grade 11 or something. I told this person I met up with, "the only difference between me and you, is time". I've just experience a lot more but that doesn't make me a better photographer. I'm just more tapped in to myself but anyone can reach that stage at any point. You just gotta realize it. Over time I've learned to give a bit more concise advice instead of just giving everyone a speech about everything I know. They're going to go thought this cycle on their own, the best I can do is point them in the right direction, which is towards themselves.
I do feel like a professor sometimes but just like any teacher, they gotta update the curriculum and teach from a place of experience and relatability. That's something that I do for myself that I gotta continue to do what I do. Stay in the mix with what's going on so I can always be available for any artist at any level to give advice to. Anyway, this was more of a note so self. As will be a lot of these new entires. Love. God is Love and LOE.
