One of the main reasons I drove east for 2,000 miles last month and then sped back west again was to attend the Feet First Sessions workshop in NYC.
It was led by photographers Max and Margaux and Jesse and Whitney and based on the idea that sometimes, you just have to jump in feet first without thinking.
And yes – I learned a lot about photography and the business of photography – but hoo, boy! – What I needed most was a good, fat, home-cooked dose of creative, smart, witty, and energetic people to spin me like a top and give me something to think about while I walked all those blocks in the rain from the train down Nostrand Avenue back to Bear’s.
I learned so much in two quick days.
Channeling the Cheshire Cat for a moment, Whitney Chamberlin of Our Labor of Love teaches us to smile while Max Wanger of . . . well, Max Wanger! takes a picture of us trying.
Stone cold, cool cat Jesse Chamberlin of Our Labor of Love.
And I could blather on about it here for 10,000 words, but the most concise, little speck of knowledge I took – something that has lately been shaped and honed and chewed into a decided pencil point to put in my pocket and take out when needed to erase or underline a bit of white life – is to do what you like.
Just do it.
It is such a simple idea, but a rather wily one when things like finances, reason, opinions, or fears come into play.
Find what you like, and then do it. And when you do that – doing what you like and being you – the people and places and ideas and things and events and everythings that will feed and nourish you will gravitate towards you without your even noticing.
Like finds like. The end.
Be well out there! And be happy, my pets.
– SAWK
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