St Paul's Cathedral London 2015
St Paul’s Cathedral, London 2015
Happy New Year to everyone! Yes, even including to my enemies:)
A few years ago I stopped making New Year’s resolutions. We should be making resolutions for life, not just for the New Year. So I made myself the following resolution two years ago: life is short, don’t waste your time to anything that isn’t worth your time. Enjoy life, pursue your passions and dreams. Live according to your passions. Create beautiful things that can move myself and hopefully also others. Because that’s the only thing that’s really worth an effort in life. When I’m moved by beautiful art, I feel alive, I feel like I’m really living. What’s more beautiful than creating things that can move people? Even though I didn’t know, and still don’t know, if I could ever do that, create art and pursue my passions, I wanted to give it a try. So at that point I quit my daytime job that I had for the past 16 years, and threw away my academic training as a criminal lawyer and an IT expert and all expectations that people had of me of building up a respectable career, not so much to be a ‘professional photographer’, or to be an ‘artist’. No, just to be spending my life doing the things I love, that made me feel alive. I left all securities and I was now facing a financially very unsure future, because now I had to make money with my passions, with the things I love to do. Without wasting any time, and my life, at business meetings at the office that I loathed, without wasting any time in traffic jams during rush hours. Without being held accountable for whatever I did on a day except to myself, to life and of course to the Tax administration (some things never change). No more wasting time and my life, just for the sake of making money and building up a career.
I never regretted that decision. For the past 2 years I only do things I love to do: create some nice photos, write a bit and teach a bit about it, and travel places. And even though I’m doing financially better than ever before I quit my daytime job and career, there’s still a lot of insecurity. Who knows, maybe next year this time I’ll be writing this from inside a cardboard box, living on the streets. Or maybe I’m still doing what I love to do, writing to you from my sunny studio in an exotic location. The point is, you never know what the future will bring you, only what you do right now. I’ve tried to really start living, and maybe I’ll die living, but it’s always better than being dead all your life.
So I really wish you all to start living and pursue your passions and dreams, not only this New Year, but for the rest of your life. Today’s not too late, but tomorrow can be.
ISO100
f/8.0
380s (6min 20s)
16 stops ND Firecrest filters
24mm Canon TS 24mm lens - maximum upwards shift
If you want to know how I create images like this, then check out my website www.bwvision.com with the most extensive free tutorials on the web on black and white photography and long exposure photography.
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St Paul's Cathedral London 2015
St Paul’s Cathedral, London 2015
Happy New Year to everyone! Yes, even including to my enemies:)
A few years ago I stopped making New Year’s resolutions. We should be making resolutions for life, not just for the New Year. So I made myself the following resolution two years ago: life is short, don’t waste your time to anything that isn’t worth your time. Enjoy life, pursue your passions and dreams. Live according to your passions. Create beautiful things that can move myself and hopefully also others. Because that’s the only thing that’s really worth an effort in life. When I’m moved by beautiful art, I feel alive, I feel like I’m really living. What’s more beautiful than creating things that can move people? Even though I didn’t know, and still don’t know, if I could ever do that, create art and pursue my passions, I wanted to give it a try. So at that point I quit my daytime job that I had for the past 16 years, and threw away my academic training as a criminal lawyer and an IT expert and all expectations that people had of me of building up a respectable career, not so much to be a ‘professional photographer’, or to be an ‘artist’. No, just to be spending my life doing the things I love, that made me feel alive. I left all securities and I was now facing a financially very unsure future, because now I had to make money with my passions, with the things I love to do. Without wasting any time, and my life, at business meetings at the office that I loathed, without wasting any time in traffic jams during rush hours. Without being held accountable for whatever I did on a day except to myself, to life and of course to the Tax administration (some things never change). No more wasting time and my life, just for the sake of making money and building up a career.
I never regretted that decision. For the past 2 years I only do things I love to do: create some nice photos, write a bit and teach a bit about it, and travel places. And even though I’m doing financially better than ever before I quit my daytime job and career, there’s still a lot of insecurity. Who knows, maybe next year this time I’ll be writing this from inside a cardboard box, living on the streets. Or maybe I’m still doing what I love to do, writing to you from my sunny studio in an exotic location. The point is, you never know what the future will bring you, only what you do right now. I’ve tried to really start living, and maybe I’ll die living, but it’s always better than being dead all your life.
So I really wish you all to start living and pursue your passions and dreams, not only this New Year, but for the rest of your life. Today’s not too late, but tomorrow can be.
ISO100
f/8.0
380s (6min 20s)
16 stops ND Firecrest filters
24mm Canon TS 24mm lens - maximum upwards shift
If you want to know how I create images like this, then check out my website www.bwvision.com with the most extensive free tutorials on the web on black and white photography and long exposure photography.
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