Happy Saturday my friends!
I hope you are all having a great start to your weekend and that you have some fantastic weather to enjoy. Welcome to the second week of my blog, the one that I've been two years creating :) They say that the best things in life take time so hopefully this blog will be worth the wait. In that same thought this week I am going to talk a little about where I have been and where I am heading. Just as I mentioned, time is often the greatest gift we are given. It can be our most valuable possession in life yet is something we really don't posses at all.
For many years I was blessed to be a general photographer. I loved the challenges of shooting weddings, the joy of shooting families and the pride of shooting seniors as they embarked on the next step in life. Each of the sessions over the years gave me something, a memory, a lesson and a dream. As I grew older and in many ways more focused on my own ideas and visions, I realized I was being given another choice. The choice of where I wanted to take my work, my career and my remaining time in the world of photography.
A year ago I revamped my plan for the future. I renamed my business, gave it a new look and feel and basically started working my way into a new direction. For me this was a tad scary and overwhelming. I began to move away from general photography. I left behind the boundaries of a traditional studio. The knowledge of being comfortable in my daily routine. I began to trade that for the honor of becoming a photographic artist. I realized that all the countless days of shooting general photography subjects and all the hundreds of thousands of images had been to bring me here. They had served to teach me, to shape me and to inspire me into the artist that I am today.
Being a photographic artist is an honor. I now have the creative freedom and the inspiration of experience to capture the world in a totally different way. I have come to see the beauty of the world. I now see the world with an eye that I had never before been aware of. To see the miracle that is a butterfly, the colors and textures painted by a loving God on such a delicate creature. The wonder of a bird in flight or a flower growing wild with a beauty that is breathtaking. The power of a mountain river or the majesty of the ocean waves. This is the world we were given. The world we share and so often look at but never really see.
Over the next few months I will begin placing my art in various places around the Southeast and if all goes well eventually nationwide. My work will be in galleries, both physical and online and in art exhibits and home decor stores. My hope is that with each print someone will see the beauty of our world and appreciate it for the gift that it is. My dream is that my work will inspire people to think, to be thankful and to live life with a bit more hope and peace than before. While I will still take on a very few select assignments such as weddings or portraits they will only make up about 20% of my schedule. I will devote the remainder to my art and to the craft of creating images that I can share with my patrons and clients.
The future for each of us is uncertain, full of wonder, challenge and mystery. The time we spend each day making that future our very best present is what will make it a wonderful part of our past. Until we meet here again, take care, be safe, happy and full of joy and may you have peace in all you do.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
At last....... a blog for Davissa.
Welcome my friends to the brand new blog for Davissa Fine Art Photography. Many of you have asked over the past two years "when are you going to do a blog"? The simple truth is, I didn't have time. I didn't want to be one of those bloggers who posts about once a year (like I do on my personal blog) so I elected to wait to do this. Well, the time is here so let the blogging begin.
For those of you who may be new to the world of Davissa and all things David, you are in for a unique, creative and sometimes probably memorable trip. The fact that I have decided to launch this blog on the eve of Father's Day is no fluke. I wanted to launch this as a tribute to the my Dad and the fantastic influence he was in my life. My Dad was a hard, strong, funny and loving man with a sense of humor and a wisdom I miss daily. He was in fact, my best friend. He gave me inspiration, challenges, suggestions and the much needed kick in the pants from time to time. He never judged me, discouraged me or failed to try and understand the complex person I am. He was and will always be one of the greatest people I will ever know. So, to honor a great man, a great friend and great Father, here we are!
Photography for me is much more than something I simply do as a profession. It is in fact a part of who I am. It is an extension of the complex, creative, funny and deeply emotional person I am. Making the choice to leave my family profession years ago and follow my creative heart was a hard one. One I have often questioned, wondered about and even doubted but here I am. As the years pass and I get older, a bit wiser and certainly more comfortable in my own skin I see the world differently. The really enjoyable part of what I do is that I get to chronicle the world, the people in it, the people in my life and things I see and live daily. No my friends, photography is FAR more than just my job.
They world of photography for me is a place of peace. It is a place where I can be myself, allow my mind to run and explore and to daily as the question "what if" and then try the "if" and see what happens. That, to me, is a gift. I feel that God gave me the eye, the talent and the personality to do what I do and do it well. He brings me the inspiration and the subjective eye to see the world in perhaps a little different way each day. For that I am thankful and blessed. As a child watching the old Star Trek and Hawaii 5-0 episodes when they were new I was always in wonder of the world as it could be. Now I get to create images that can challenge the mind, open the idea and make people say "wow". That is the greatest gift I can ever receive from someone who views one of my works. If I have made them wonder, made them think and in short made them say "wow", then I've done exactly what I set out to do.
Let me be the first to tell you that over the summer I will NOT be blogging every day. I'd run out of things to say.......well, perhaps not that exactly but things you'd find interesting let's say. So, I will probably try and post about once a week here. I will share some photos with you that I have taken during the week, share with you the high points of shoots and sessions and hopefully make you laugh a little too. If you know me very well, you know that food is going to find its way into some of my posts as well, what can I say. I am after all Italian. So, my friends, share with me now as I try to create and maintain a positive place here to share what I do, how I do it and perhaps have a laugh or two as well. I want this to be a positive, interactive and educational blog as well so feel free to post comments and questions.
Have a GREAT Fathers day and and look for my next update soon.
For those of you who may be new to the world of Davissa and all things David, you are in for a unique, creative and sometimes probably memorable trip. The fact that I have decided to launch this blog on the eve of Father's Day is no fluke. I wanted to launch this as a tribute to the my Dad and the fantastic influence he was in my life. My Dad was a hard, strong, funny and loving man with a sense of humor and a wisdom I miss daily. He was in fact, my best friend. He gave me inspiration, challenges, suggestions and the much needed kick in the pants from time to time. He never judged me, discouraged me or failed to try and understand the complex person I am. He was and will always be one of the greatest people I will ever know. So, to honor a great man, a great friend and great Father, here we are!
Photography for me is much more than something I simply do as a profession. It is in fact a part of who I am. It is an extension of the complex, creative, funny and deeply emotional person I am. Making the choice to leave my family profession years ago and follow my creative heart was a hard one. One I have often questioned, wondered about and even doubted but here I am. As the years pass and I get older, a bit wiser and certainly more comfortable in my own skin I see the world differently. The really enjoyable part of what I do is that I get to chronicle the world, the people in it, the people in my life and things I see and live daily. No my friends, photography is FAR more than just my job.
They world of photography for me is a place of peace. It is a place where I can be myself, allow my mind to run and explore and to daily as the question "what if" and then try the "if" and see what happens. That, to me, is a gift. I feel that God gave me the eye, the talent and the personality to do what I do and do it well. He brings me the inspiration and the subjective eye to see the world in perhaps a little different way each day. For that I am thankful and blessed. As a child watching the old Star Trek and Hawaii 5-0 episodes when they were new I was always in wonder of the world as it could be. Now I get to create images that can challenge the mind, open the idea and make people say "wow". That is the greatest gift I can ever receive from someone who views one of my works. If I have made them wonder, made them think and in short made them say "wow", then I've done exactly what I set out to do.
Let me be the first to tell you that over the summer I will NOT be blogging every day. I'd run out of things to say.......well, perhaps not that exactly but things you'd find interesting let's say. So, I will probably try and post about once a week here. I will share some photos with you that I have taken during the week, share with you the high points of shoots and sessions and hopefully make you laugh a little too. If you know me very well, you know that food is going to find its way into some of my posts as well, what can I say. I am after all Italian. So, my friends, share with me now as I try to create and maintain a positive place here to share what I do, how I do it and perhaps have a laugh or two as well. I want this to be a positive, interactive and educational blog as well so feel free to post comments and questions.
Have a GREAT Fathers day and and look for my next update soon.
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