Comments on: Where Are You Going and How Can You Get There?

By: Barney Davey

Barney Davey

In reply to Stills Glossy. Thanks for sharing your remarkable, heartfelt, and sincere comments. Your story will resonate with others as it has with me. Keep working on your photography skills. And perhaps think of the visual story images need to tell and how your experiences add to or are the basis for it. There are so many things that have happened in your life that you are already experiencing in new ways due to your photography. I sense great things will come to you. All the best!

By: Stills Glossy

Stills Glossy

Your article was dead on for me. My story and life experiences have definitely contributed to my passion for Fine Art Photography. I followed in my father’s footsteps because I looked up to him for so long and thought that was what you done. I had no college admiration, just wanted to do property maintenance like my father and his father before him until cancer struck with such a vengeance on my wife and My side of families. We lost 12 members to cancer in a 3 yr period and without realizing how depressed and how unmotivated to continue forward with life, I asked myself is it worth all the time missed with family working so hard like we were taught because in the end none of that matters. What matters and the question you will ask yourself when the end is approaching is how do my kids, my brothers, my uncles, my wife view me and was I a good dad, husband, brother, etc… My father always told me no matter what you do when you wake in the morning and you go to work you want to do something that to you isn’t work it is a passion or a love for that field and you will be paid spiritually as well as monetary. I have yet to make a single dollar from my photography but I feel so rich inside because it is a release that I never experienced before. I never snapped one shot until 2016 and when my father passed in September of 2016 I picked up my camera and it has poured out of me ever since. It is definitely what drives me today and beyond because I have no doubt I will be successful selling my passion, when that time comes.

By: Barney Davey

Barney Davey

In reply to Koorosh Nejad. Hi, thanks for your comments and kind words. Your brief story here is remarkable. Of course, your life experiences influence your art. Through stories, we embrace and share our life trials and triumphs. Art shares visually and stories are forms of oral and written sharing. It's all communication and rhythm and style. Power comes from weaving them together and the magic from presenting them with authenticity.