Any Dream You Can Dream — It’s All Right There.
Stalking the world with your camera can be solitary work. Sitting late into an evening with Photoshop open, laboring over a complicated selection or fine-tuning a layer mask, can be lonely work. But the freedom we have as artists can be … exquisite …
A Video Post, by Sebastian Michaels
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“As a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
This was written of writers, but I think it applies equally to all artists.
As photo artists, anything we care to dream up, we can bring to life. Tap into your imagination, put in the time, and you can court the magnificent.
We earn that freedom with our hours behind a lens and our longer hours at the computer … until we reach those rare, beautiful moments when what we are seeing in front of us is so great we can hardly believe we created it (and often from such humble materials).
But that’s the payoff, you see.
That’s why we do what we do.
There is solitude, yes, but there is also magic in there — and for those who would call themselves artists, the magic is reward enough.
– Sebastian