Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Follow your passion and do what you love!

I really found this video that I thought was inspirational and thought I would share it with you as this is exactly my thinking and what I have done in pursuing my photography career.

Gary Vay Ner Chuk runs a 60 million dollar a year wine business called WineLibrary.com and puts out a lot of entertaining and inspirational videos. Check him out!

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Thursday, November 06, 2008

Have you hit a dead end?



Do you need creative inspiration?


I highly recommend you visit the profile of h19 on flickr.com

I stumbled upon his photo stream one day and often visit it for creative inspiration.

Some people take the route I did read many books, go to art and photography school, learn all I can from my teachers, start a business, learn to market myself, teach and inspire others and others like h19 just picks up a point and shoot camera and uses his natural eye for seeing a great image and takes great photos, doesn't photoshop them and just posts them on flickr for fun.

Is one better than the other?

Tell me what you think?

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

What do you really want?


Are you ready for something else?

Do you want something different in life?
Do you want a big house in the country?
Do you want to travel?
Do you want more time with loved ones?
Do you want to be a successful artist?

Maybe you want security, happiness, freedom...

Why do you want that?

Listen to Tim Gallway talk about sitting at the feet of the wiseman

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Creative Inspiration



Are you looking for creative inspiration?

I was recently introduced to a website called the accidentalcreative.com.

Accidental Creative is the passion and creation of Todd Henry.

Todd is a voracious student of the creative process and a lifelong participant in organizational creativity, both on the business and creative sides. His main passion is bringing freedom to creatives and helping them break down walls and barriers that are inhibiting their creative throughput.

Todd has been joined by Rob Seddon, who spent three years at one of the premier idea think tanks in the country leading brainstorming sessions for Fortune 500 senior managers. Rob then moved to the world of government and politics to learn how to keep his creative advantage in a world devoid of much creative spark.

Our Accidental Creative podcasts feature Todd as well as other creative pros sharing their strategies and thoughts on the creative process in a practical, rubber-meets-the-road way so that you can immediately apply them to your life.

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Monday, October 01, 2007

Inspirational Images from Thailand

I have a set of beautiful images that I created during my visit to Thailand in February 07. These images inspire me daily as my desktop and screen saver and I decided to make these available to others as well.



See my product page for more information

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Are You Having Fun?

Acheieving Your Childhood Dreams

A friend of mine sent me this video link and I thought you might enjoy it.



Description: Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from
pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18,
2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really
Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons
learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career
and personal goals.

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Saturday, February 24, 2007

What Is Your Your Dream In Life?



My dream was to become a professional photographer. I sacrificed many things and worked hard. Those close to me that know my full story are quite impressed and even those that don't know my full story are inspired by my actions and accomplishments.

I'm working on my full story for publication now and will publish it here soon. In the mean time I wanted to share with you some words from people that have written me recently about how I inspired them to follow their dreams.

"Wayne when I was looking for a photography school I found you and read all I could about you. I also looked at your work."... "I am 40 will be 41 when I go to Hallamark". I can't wait to be submersed and to learn. I am moving from California...it will be an advanture that is for sure." -- Jvan


"I love your work. I look at the baby crawling down the hallway with the parents in the background from the hallmark book ALL the time! Actually, that is the picture that made my decision to go concrete! You are amazing!" -- Jessica


I'm glad that I was able to Jessica and Jvan to follow their dreams of becoming professional photographers.

It's your choice, what are you going to do?

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Creativity Workshops Abroad

I've not personally attended one of these workshops yet, but one of these days I will. What could be better than going off to picturesqe European location to inspire your creative juicies.

http://www.creativityseminars.net/index.html