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04/29/2008 10:00:34 PM · #1
not sure what to say just wanted to say goodbye to the few I have talked to. Thanks for sharing ideas and info. Anymore I feel like I am not in synch with the majority around here and it is causing me to feel very bitter and I am loosing my drive to take pictures. So I am taking a break from here to just focus on what I like to do and not what other people like. best of luck to you all......................................................................................Rob
04/29/2008 10:03:59 PM · #2
Rob,

I wish for you a community that makes you FEEL like you want to.

You are a very creative being and I hope you can find your Mojo again.

If you would in any way consider staying, perhaps you could consider joining our May Creative Choice Side Challenge.

It's a bunch of people working on their OWN project daily. I had lost my Mojo and found April's challenge REALLY envigorating!

If you - look after yourself.

Peace.
04/29/2008 10:14:10 PM · #3
I enjoyed doing a couple of the side challenges with you in them. I can see that your photos are very creative, sometimes very artistic as well. You shoot things and process in ways that do not run middle of the road at DPC, but that makes your work refreshing to view, at least to me.
I hope that you find an on line or local connection that will fire up the creative juices again for you soon.
If you feel the need to move on, take care of yourself out there.


04/29/2008 10:24:42 PM · #4
Hiya, Well I am far FAR FAR from being 'in sync' with the crowd here at DPC. However, I am still here and I am still trucking, blood and gore and horror and all.

Sometimes a short break helps, I know I have taken a few of them but always seem to find my way back here. I must like the abuse and stuff.

Anyway, just saying don't leave, don't let the masses Mute your Artistic dreams. Granted we all want to be recognized for what we do, yet, sometimes we just need to do it to keep others on their toes and on the edge.
04/29/2008 10:29:20 PM · #5
Don't say goodbye....say 'see ya later'. You may find that there is more to this site than the bittersweet times, so please remember, you are always welcome back. Whilst I haven't been on here much lately, I can say that you are one that I recognise whenever I read the forums. You have left a memory on many people here.
04/29/2008 10:33:13 PM · #6
As many will say you are not alone. I haven't worked with you, but was moved by viewing your images. I hope wherever you go....you go with a camera --- don't waste your beautiful gift!!!
04/29/2008 11:32:13 PM · #7
Five years ago I felt the same and I left without saying goodbye. It can be very hard to see the things you value put down in anyway. It takes a certain hardening, even, apathy towards what others believe of your work.

There are two types of photography or even art in general; the type your create for yourself, and the type you create for others. The difficulty comes when you try to apply the same work into both categories. Because when you do, you are putting your heart on the line, along with your feelings, your hopes, your past, future, strengths, and your faults. Your put your very self on the line.

However, the people on the other side of the mirror don't or can't see your work in that way. They don't know who you are nor can they feel what you felt when you created your work. There are famous works of art that people still do not understand today.

When you create something and show it to others, you are poking a hole through a wall between you and everyone else, a peep hole, a ever so small way to see into your life. The true difficulty is in making sure that what they see with their limited view, is what you most want to show.

It isn't easy, and I cannot tell you to stay, or to leave. Maybe you already have, maybe you are hoping for a last minute insight that will change your view of things here. In any case just know that there is nothing wrong with your feelings, with your works. In the end, you are the only person who will ever completely understand the reason of your works and feel the connection to them that you do.

Just please, do not give up on photography altogether like I did.

Message edited by author 2008-04-29 23:44:16.
04/30/2008 01:00:50 AM · #8
well, all i got to say is, leaving if you feel it is nessicary, do it but, i just stick out of the challenges, when ever i see someone post a before and after, ill hop on taking there before and trying to edit it just like there after, it helped me alot in learning photography, even got me to create a cupple tricks that i have yet to put up on dpc but there in the making, sad to see someone leave, but best of luck. Jimbo
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