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Time limit vol.1



"If you can't take even one picture there in the first week, neither can in next one year" It's a photographer's words. Maybe I can make it sense.


I used to spend so long time, whole year or 6 months, for taking photos. ... I believed that the longer I photograph, the more I can get good images. But it's not right. Nothing is nothing. There is no relationship between the period and master peaces.


My photo shooting time in travel has been shorten. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean my my business goes well and I got tight schedule. I don't have room in my mind to spend a longer time for travel any more.
As a result, my travel shortened more and more, from an year to 3 months, 3 months to a month, a month to a couple of weeks ... And now my latest destination, Ukraine was just 12 day stay. I needed moving time from one city to another. So actual shooting time was more shorten.


In facts, it's too late finding out I can't take photos there a week later. So inevitably, I have to change my shooting style. I set time limit for my self. I have to make some photo works even if I can spend just couple of days in each city.
It's sounds like I'm unhappy with these shorten time limit. However I think this is a really good training to me. I don't wanna talking about "dead line and professionalism" thing here. As I wrote, I'm not a super busy photographer. I just think "time limit" is very important for our life. We can concentrate on and accomplish something because the dead line is set and time is limited.


Guess we get unlimited time. Maybe we could neither keep concentrating on it nor go straight ahead to the goal. And if the time limit is shorten, we adapt ourselves ... maybe.




Today's piece
" Portrait " Mariupol, Ukraine 2009




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