thechrisproject photography

I saw these on A Photo Editor a little while ago and I’ve watched them (the second one in particular) over and over since then. Very appropriate for anybody engaged in any type of creative work.

What he says about having good taste but ability that falls short of the taste rings true with me. I’m in that stage. It’s comforting to know that lots of people (everyone?) goes through it. Though I think my taste could use improvement as well.

But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects and provincial, we are in danger of forgetting the language which all things and events speak without metaphor, which alone is copious and standard. Much is published, but little printed. […] No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

- —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Via The Online Photographer