Welcome to my blog. It’s mostly a photo blog, but I’ll transition to add music and straight ideas over time. A true photo blog like this has been long time coming. I have concentrated on photography three times in my life: Nepal, The Colorado Trail, and now, China. For Nepal and The Colorado Trail, I used Facebook as my medium to show pictures and convey my thoughts. As I put more thought into my photography, I found that there was an incongruity between how I was displaying my work and what I was displaying. In essence, I found that Facebook was too casual for what I wanted to express. I want to express first-class ideas through the lens of photography. I want make art, I guess. And this blog feels like a much better place to do that than Facebook.
Photo Series 1: My Stories From China
This photo blog will be split into three separate series. Photo Series 1: My Stories From China is the most personal, the most relatable, the most fun. Posts in this category will mostly be told in a linear, story-like fashion. Here are some stories I’m excited to tell:
[Fenyang, China]
[Dongguan, China]
[Nanjing, China]
[Macao, China]
[Chengdu, China]
In Photo Series 2: Understanding China, I’ll present some of the ideas to help us understand the unique way in which China operates. I’ll take us from the personal (My Stories From China) to the societal. Here are a few choice pictures from this series:
[Suzhou, China]
[Chongqing, China]
[Mt. Old Grandfather, China]
[Dongguan, China]
[Hong Kong, China]
Photo Series 3: Photography in the Abstract
My final series is by far the most “highbrow”. In Photography in the Abstract, I zoom out one more level, from societal to cerebral. I would classify these theses under “Photography Theory”; the pictures found here are unconnected to a specific time or place.
I define abstract pictures as ones that are: not interesting for my personal story AND don’t reflect a truth about China/life.
Abstract pictures are difficult to differentiate because:
1. I have defined them as the not of two other concepts, and therefore there are lots of pictures, none of which have inherent similarities.
2. They are the closest to art. There is no story/thesis behind them except for my arbitrary groupings.
What’s in store:
Until Next Time
I am still low-budget/low-time in many ways: I use a point-and-shoot camera, I don’t do any post-production, and I don’t pay for this site. Nevertheless, I’m excited to explore this more serious approach to photography. Hope you enjoy my posts as much as I do. And please, do leave comments/questions here or on various social media. I’m open to feedback or just let me know if you simply enjoy it. Thanks!
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