The Process of Self Expression

I would like to start my first post by quoting Mark Galer of the book Photography Foundations for Art & Design and I quote: 

"Why do we take photographs? Do we take them for other people to admire our skill? Do we take them as a record, document or as a trophy? Do we create them to advertise to our friends that we are having a beautiful, successful, enviable life, or do we create them for ourselves, a process of expressing how we feel to be alive in our world.

I create images because the act of looking helps me to slow down and actually look at the life I

am living. It gets me ‘out of my head’ and into my world - it helps me to connect and appreciate

what is around me, and this act helps me to express myself. Art is about expressing yourself. It

doesn’t really matter if no one ‘gets it’ so long as it was a meaningful exercise to you.

The art is often about the process rather than the outcome. When someone appreciates your art it is indeed rewarding. Someone else understands us - someone else ‘gets it’ too."

That's how I see the world and I'll live and die with it.