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Seeking Advice

April 2, 2011 By

Why, when walking along the old streets in Paris, did a man feeding pidgeons attract my eye more than buildings, bridges and classic sites? Who knows! It just did! I tend to look at a scene, then quite intuitively distill it down and focus on what it is in the scene that I specifically find interesting. In this case, I was fascinated by how addicted the pigeons were to the man feeding them. They would have followed him anywhere!

This scene reminds me of how often we depend on someone to feed us: not food, but more abstract things like happiness, or fulfillment. [Read more...]

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Composing your Life: Lessons from a Parrot

March 26, 2011 By

Photographers tend to notice other photographers. On a trip to Maui, I kept running into local photographers on the street and in parks making money by offering to take your photo with their parrot. Souvenirs of your trip kind of thing. And people were flocking to it! What I found most interesting, of course, was the parrot!

I really wanted to photograph that beautiful bird! But how?? [Read more...]

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Soar Like an Eagle

February 18, 2011 By

Do you ever look up and wish you could fly? I read an adorable story recently about a baby eagle who somehow got separated from his mother and landed upon a chicken farm. He was cared for there and learned to act like chickens act – that’s all he knew, because that’s all he was ever taught. Then one day he saw a big eagle flying overhead and something inside him stirred. He had always felt that there was something different about him… Now he knew: he wanted to fly!

“Could I?” he wondered. “How do I do it? What if I fall? Why am I stuck here in this barnyard, instead of being up in those treetops?”

How? What if? Why? These questions are double edged swords: used at the right time in the right way, they can achieve lift off and set you soaring; used improperly, they become roadblocks or cement weights that hold you down and stop you in your tracks. [Read more...]

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