Comments on: Eat Your Crow and Be Done With It

By: Gale Rainwater

Gale Rainwater — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:25:46 +0000

Amen Brother, Preach it!

By: prashant

prashant — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:59:59 +0000

hi Guy,
visited after a long time. Only you can write such stuff…I’m so very looking forward to meet you personally one day.

By: Saurabh Deoras

Saurabh Deoras — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:47:53 +0000

Great post Guy. I think many people discover themselves through art. Before they even know the “right reasons to do art” the art becomes the medium to find those right reasons. Whats necessary is to keep ourselves engaged in it and rest will follow.

By: Adam Barker

Adam Barker — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:44:57 +0000

Great post Guy. Love the honesty.

By: John Wall

John Wall — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:55:29 +0000

Good words. Just came over from Dan Baumbach’s site. Looks like some useful introspection flowering in a lot of folks at about the same time.

By: Mary Kay

Mary Kay — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:00:13 +0000

oh, yes, that sounds exactly like the voice in my head talking about feelings and emotional impact and reminding me that you can’t possibly touch someone with a photo if the scene hasn’t touched you first. “Breath and enjoy the view”.
My biggest mistake for a short (thankfully short) period was that every time I went shooting I felt like I was taking a test, that there was something I needed to prove. Absurd, since I have nothing to gain, it’s not my job, no one is going to hire or fire me based on what I bring back. And although when it comes to places you visit once and you know you are not going to visit again you really want to capture an image that does justice to their beauty, I’ve come to love all those images that I haven’t been able to capture just as much as the onces I have, those pictures in my memories are as real as those in my hard drive. If only I could share them

Thanks Guy, that was a basic and fundamental lesson, should be obvious but it isn’t, seems that sometimes feeling secure in all the technical knowledge one forgets all about emotions.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:55:49 +0000

So true Guy. If there is one good thing about the digital stone tablets of the internet, it allows us to realize how much we have changed as you have done here. Many people have been posting various things for 10 years or more. Who can say they haven’t changed in 10 years?

By: Who Am I « Dan Baumbach Photography

Who Am I « Dan Baumbach Photography — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:05:04 +0000

[...] We are all constantly making up definitions of ourselves. They sometimes arise out of an ah ha moment and there’s a sense of freedom and pride to the thought, this is who I am. But like everything else in life at some point that definition doesn’t seem to fit anymore and in fact feels confining. Then we may have a new ah ha moment and a new self definition. My photographer friend, Guy Tal, writes masterfully about this as pertaining to an artist in his blog, here. [...]

By: Daniel Ruf

Daniel Ruf — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:59:18 +0000

Boy, did that strike home. Very well put and thank you for the reminder!

By: Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:01:35 +0000

Thanks, Guy – This is a very timely post for me, and a good reminder of why I bother! :^D

- Jack