Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 10/8/00 1:27 pm, Jim Brick at jimbrick@photoaccess.com wrote: > This is the difference between a "passion" and simply a job. A passion is > your life. A job is something you do to sustain a passion or life. > > Mark is extremely lucky that his passion is his job and his life. Very lucky. One of the reasons I never really pursued a career as a pro was that my first few paying assignments just paralysed me creatively. I was too scared to take risks... which I guess my style has always relied on. Also I sensed the joy flooding out of it. Even now, though, when I'm really immersed in a (non-paying) project I find I just have to get away from cameras for a while, or everything starts to look like a photograph. So I write for a living now... and I don't write for pleasure, though I enjoy what I do very much. But it does mean that I can take exactly the pictures I want without worrying if anyone will ever buy them. So I absolutely lift a glass to anyone who can pursue all sides of the art/profit/pleasure equation simultaneously. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com