As an artist or creative person, what are the worries that keep you up at night? For me, it changes like the wind. Many nights I go to bed fulfilled. Some nights my brain won’t shut off with ideas. Other nights I tell myself I’ll never make anything ever again. My brain is very dramatic. For the last year I have been working on a series that I’ve only shown a few people. That means that the work I have…
How often do you find yourself creating because it feels right? Or making something just for yourself? Do you feel you are expressing your deepest message through your craft? These are the questions I ask fellow creatives when we meet and the answer is not positive nearly often enough. I hear so much frustration from others about the lack of time, energy and money it requires to create the art that we love. I gathered these roses ages ago for…
Oh my loves, so much is happening this month! I am grateful that September has rolled around. I haven’t quite figured out how I’ll handle it all, but I am excited for it! This month is my Promoting Passion Convention (Sept 27-29) and I’ll be in Florida and Peru before that. I follow it with another month of travel in October. I’ve known all year that this was going to be an insane two months but I think they are…
This year has been an incredible lesson in how I create. From an 8 foot box built with my own two hands, to the forest, to a stairwell in Vegas, I have been aiming my camera in all sorts of ways. March is here in full swing, which meant that I got to spend the first week of it creating in many different places. I started out in Los Angeles filming an underwater music video, and shooting stills, too! It…
A lot of times I get asked how long I’ve been a photographer. There are so many ways I want to answer that question, but usually I stick with the actual date that I first picked up my camera and started creating. I could answer with when I became a full-time photographer, but that seems a little bit silly since nothing really changed on that day at all, except my stress levels. I could answer with when I started honing…