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小暑 六月節（約7月7/8日）
正值初伏前後，天氣很熱但尚未酷熱，忙於夏秋作物的工作。
有的人認為，勞動會使人變得踏實
有的更認為勞動的汗水能洗滌人心，使人更能因而了解自己
日出而作 日入而息的農家人
卻認為勞動本為理所當然的事
Project 52 Week 41
This concept was thought up at the same time as this one
www.flickr.com/photos/jessicalutzphotography/9544352600/i...
Only it's more about choices. The risks involved in taking an unknown path in life. Choices always have risks or consequences but if the passion is there, if there is a desire for more or its the long hard road to our dreams we have to risk going down those path, biting those apples.Following our heart is always worth it.Letting our dreams slip through our fingers because the path is scary, the work is hard is the risk we don't want to take.
Our Dreams don't have to be fairytales but we do have to work for them to come true.
Farmer's Market -- Madison, Wisconsin
This project beings with a simple idea--to capture my experience in farmers' markets, which I had done some before. I don't know that it might lead me to eventually, but it inspires me to think about what Farmer's Markets mean to me through the lens.
View my other works about Farmer's Markets.
I often get asked if there are any good photography books I recommend. There is quite a list actually, and I can never seem to keep it all in my head at once. But if I had to limit it to you just one book, it would be a book that does not even contain any photos at all. It has hands down influenced my concept and approach to photography more than any other single book. That book is Art & Fear by Ted Orland and David Bayles.
I was reading the section on talent last night, and this excerpt in particular resonated with me, particularly as it is an issue I have wrestled with before and one that I know many of my photographic peers wrestle with too. And the sooner you can get over it and stop wasting energy worrying about talent, the sooner you can start investing that energy into more fruitful endeavors. Allow me to share:
Talent, in common parlance, is "what comes easily". So sooner or later, inevitably, you reach a point where the work doesn't come easily, and - Aha!, it's just as you feared!
Wrong. By definition, whatever you have is exactly what you need to produce your best work. There is probably no clearer waste of psychic energy than worrying about how much talent you have - and probably no worry more common. This is true even among artists of considerable accomplishment.
Talent, if it is anything, is a gift, and nothing of the artist's own making. This idea is hardly new: Plato maintained that all art is a gift from the gods, channeled through artists who are "out of their mind" - quite literally, in Plato's view - when making art. Plato, however, is not the only philosopher on the block; while his description correlates well with the functioning of the Oracle at Delphi, idiot savants, and certain TV evangelists, it's difficult to reconcile with most real world events.
Were talent a prerequisite, then the better the artwork, the easier it would have been to make. But alas, the fates are rarely so generous. For every artist who has developed a mature vision with grace and speed, countless others have laboriously nurtured their art through fertile periods and dry spells, through false starts and breakaway bursts, through successive and significant changes of direction, medium, and subject matter. Talent may get some off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much. The world is filled with people who were given great natural gifts, sometimes conspicuously flashy gifts, yet never produce anything. And when that happens, the world soon ceases to care whether they are talented.
Even at best talent remains a constant, and those who rely upon that gift alone, without developing further, peak quickly and soon fade to obscurity. Examples of genius only accentuate that truth. Newspapers love to print stories about five-year-old musical prodigies giving solo recitals, but you rarely read about one going on to become Mozart. The point here is that whatever his initial gift, Mozart was also an artist who learned to work on his work, and thereby improved. In that respect he shares common ground with the rest of us. Artists get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning from their work. They commit themselves to the work of their heart, and act upon that commitment. So when you ask, "Then why doesn't it come easily for me?" ,the answer is probably, "Because making art is hard!" What you end up caring about is what you do, not whether the doing came hard or easy.
Talent is a snare and a delusion. In the end, the practical questions about talent come down to these: Who cares? Who would know? and What difference would it make? And the practical answers are: Nobody, Nobody, and None.
Be HAPPY. Be a GYMBUNNY!
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I saw this line on a piece of art recently, it was untitled, and brilliant. I try to live by this motto, never become too big, and always stay on the grind. Amen.
It is Christmas morning and I’m full of cheer. The irritation has passed.
I don’t know whether it was people asking really silly attention seeking questions on some Facebook pages (where they could Google the answer in the time it took them to write their drivel), the seemingly higher percentage of beggars in South Africa compared to Mumbai or Apartheid still being blamed for everything presently wrong in South Africa and up until doomsday, that has irritated me the most in the past two weeks. On the other hand it could just be that I’m becoming a really grumpy old man.
Was it the “converted” beggar at my neighbourhood traffic lights (now selling goods instead of begging) or the joy of the people I passed in Dharavi (large slum in Mumbai) a few weeks back that countered this irritation and strengthened my hope?
I’m not sure but I am very sure that not one person asked us for money when we casually glided around Dharavi. I never saw any beggars but saw loads of smiles, joy and many people getting about their daily business (work and study) with much vigour. On at least three occasions I was invited to take persons’ photos.
Wikipedia advises “Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of the slum residents. It exports goods around the world. Leather, textiles and pottery products are among the goods made inside Dharavi by the slum residents. The total annual turnover has been estimated at over US$500 million. Dharavi has a high population density, and as with other worldwide slums, overcrowded. It is mostly low rise structures surrounded by Mumbai city. There is a disagreement if Dharavi is the largest slum in Mumbai. Some sources claim other slums in Mumbai have grown to become larger than Dharavi. Other sources disagree, and rank Dharavi as the largest slum in India.
Dharavi has experienced a long history of epidemics and natural disasters, sometimes with significant loss of lives. The first plague to devastate Dharavi, along with other settlements of Mumbai happened in 1896, when nearly half of the population perished. A series of plagues and other epidemics continued to affect Dharavi, and Mumbai in general, for the next 25 years, with high rates of mortality. Dysentery epidemics have been common throughout the years and explained with the low population density of Dharavi. Other epidemics reported include typhoid, cholera, leprosy, amoebiasis and polio, through recent years. For example, in 1986, a children cholera epidemic was reported, where most patients were residents of Dharavi. Typical patients to arrive in hospitals were in late and critical care condition, and the mortality rates were abnormally high. In recent years, cases of drug resistant tuberculosis have been reported in Dharavi.
Fires and other disasters are common. For example, in January 2013, a fire destroyed many slum properties and caused injuries. In 2005, massive floods caused deaths and extensive property damage.
Given my knowledge of South Africa and particularly Durban some of the facts above do not make sense.
Should Dharavi’s residents rather not be sitting back and only playing the blame game instead of going balls to the wall to do what they can with what they've got right where they are?
Or maybe the people are mostly doing what the one resident stated in the National Geographic article link below "You see. The Ganesh is undamaged. This is our talent. We deal with what is."
Perhaps dealing with “what is” instead of “what should have been” makes the difference.
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/dharavi-mumbai-slum/ja...
To end off I read another article by The Guardian which stated “Dharavi, at the centre of Mumbai, is a world in itself, a treasure of skilled labourers that the outside world is largely unaware of. Among the clusters of beehive hutments are about 20,000 small-scale manufacturing units.”
www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/25/dharavi-mumbai-min...
The inserted photo was taken at the foot of the railway bridge leading over the lines into Dharavi where they deal with what is and not what should have been!
This is a huge part of my Christmas cheer this morning.
Wishing all of you a very merry Christmas.
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