The first month of the year has been a good one. I have learned about myself as usual. However, what I have learned the most is the lingering thought of doing me more and more and more. I can help out people, see where they are at in their walk of life, but that is about it. They have to care and put effort in their own cause for life. Besides, I got a life, too. So, I’m looking to devote a huge part of my life next month and beyond on my own endeavors and goals. Yep. I rather not explain them much, I rather do and then explain later of what those things are.

So, What Did You Do in January?

Well. My friend and I took a walk a couple of days before the new year. We talked about vision, life and how we were going to approach it. It was a good talk and I think we both got something out of it. However, the thing that I got from it was the process of creativity. The ability to not just think of the moment that doesn’t take much time at all, but the steps in between, before and after, the whole things that makes the art or thing a reality.

Last year I was big into just snapping a couple of images and being done with the things that I needed to do. I would spend some time on the post production and be done. I heard of this for some time but didn’t think that my type of creativity didn’t require the process. But, the more I let myself trust it, it became real that I needed to in order to become the artist that I truly wanted to be.

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Each and every year I take photographs. There are photographs each and every year that I take and can’t believe that I actually took.

This year I have two photographs. It is of the same subject. And during the same session.

The cool thing about the session was that I just wanted to shoot. I just wanted to photograph a friend. I just was interested in the subject. I didn’t get too many moments like that last year. This year was interesting joggling the business and creativity of photography. It was hard. Just hard. I never knew how hard it was without going through it. I’m glad that I did. Business is hard as shit. It really is. Not many people can do it. I am still figuring out if I can do it myself, we shall see.

Back to the images. Rob had a couple of ideas about the shoot. He showed me a couple of images of Bob Marley and I knew that I wanted to do some images of my own also. So, Rob came in. Alittle nervous and didn’t know what to expect, so my wife gave him a cocktail and he got comfortable instantly.

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You know, I’ve been trying to get this guy for a very long time. But, it just happened.

I still to this day haven’t seen an Asian homeless guy. But as soon as I started to work in downtown I noticed him. I was like how could this be? How could an Asian man, of all people, be on the streets. I know that I’m stereotyping, but I’m sure if you saw him jumping from one location to the next all over downtown you would have thought the same.

But as I was observing for years, he didn’t look approachable. He kept to himself, was talking to himself, was scratching his back constantly and was sleeping in any place and in any position imaginable. I never saw him talking to anybody, but figured that he couldn’t hold a conversation.

But, you know, I still wanted a photograph of him. I needed that for my collection of downtown photographs. I didn’t know how I was going to get the photograph, but always knew that when the time came I  was going to take it.

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