torquema70

I've been on DA since 2001... During this time, I had great time but I think that the nowaday DA is much more different than the one I discovered 3 years ago. Maybe DA is victim of its success...but hey, how can you emerge as an artist when there's about 10 000 000 deviations to see or to read ??? The devwatch has this weakness that there's so many talented artists on DA that it goes huge... and finally you watch nothing anymore. This is especially true when you're not a subscriber. ;) The continual pressure put on DA artist to subsribe has something annoying... Thought DA was a free place for creative people to express themselves by art m

... I use to feel far from what I really want to do. Since I discovered photography, I wonder how I could live from it ! Anyway, I realised, as I am close to an exhibition of my photos, that I can't dissociate music from the pics. My photos are full of Red House Painters, Idaho, Damon & Naomi, Spain... I think that the first day of the exhibition, I will put the stereo on with all the songs that helped me to shoot : "Alive again", "Jump up", "Glass bottom", "To be the one", Casa mia" from Idaho, "Three legged cat", "Mistress", "Katy song", "Down through", "Song for a blue guitar" from Red House Painters and finally "Make your body move" and

I can see that I hit my 270th deviation. My work has evolved, indeed. And I wonder when my inspiration vanishes. I'm scared of that. My I still find new places to shoot, new ways to explore colour or composition. And up to now, it's working (oh... I guess so) To all, happy new year !