When I moved to Los Angeles I had been doing photography for 2 months. I was not yet convinced that I would pursue it as a career but I knew that it felt like more than a hobby. My first job was at a production company where I was the receptionist. I knew for a [...]
All growing up I was quite the messy child. I heard constantly from my mom, “When are you going to pick your clothes up? They won’t pick themselves up!”, or “Your shoes aren’t going to walk themselves up the stairs”. I can still hear her saying that when I look at my own apartment [...]
Tagged brooke shaden, decisions, inspiration, outlook, perspective, photography, taking charge, taking control over lifeWe all know the feeling of getting negative feedback on a picture. You spend lots of time creating something, you’re proud of it, you show it off, and then BOOM…”I don’t like it” or “I don’t get it” or “I don’t something something something”. It is only fair after all that we get a range [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", alien, behind the scenes, brooke shaden, create, creepy, photograph, surreal photography, surrealismI drove to the beach on a bright and sunny day. It was warm enough to lower my car windows. I zig-zagged through the grand Malibu Canyon, it sounds perfect, right? I came around a corner and was hit with sunlight filtered through fog. It was so beautiful I wished I had a place to [...]
I know that social media is taking over our lives and is seeping into the real world little by little (or a lot by a lot). There are people, artists, photographers everywhere vying for attention and trying to get ahead in their respective fields. I know how it is all too well. I am one of those people after all, when you look at it objectively. I was artistically born online, and beyond that, began my career in photography largely due to the encouragement from people I’ve never even met before. I call them “internet people” ;-)
I know it is rather obvious and unavoidable to run into so many end-of-the-year-recaps, but I fall into that category of people who just can’t help themselves. I will probably recap my year every year until I die in some sort of blog-type-thing, or maybe just in my head in years to come. Either way…one [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", 2011 recap, behind the scenes, dark art, new year, photographer, surreal photography, whimsical photographyThe things we can do with $5 and a little imagination are plentiful. The things we can do with so little are incredible. The things we can make out of nothing astound. We call ourselves creatives, and sometimes our actions show that more than others. I got to thinking about what makes me tick, the [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", baby powder, behind the scenes, blue, brooke shaden, brooke shaden photography, cloud, dark art, dust, earth, field, jumping, making something out of nothing, photographs, positivity, reborn, surrealism, warrior, whimsicalEvery Thanksgiving I write a list of reasons why I am thankful. That list is always impossibly long and getting longer each year. My family, my friends, my career, where I live, my cats…it is an obvious list, that is certain, but of course it means something to me. Everyone who celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", bird, brooke shaden, decisions, flightless, nest, positivity, reflection, Thanksgiving, YOU1. I am as good as dead without being able to find passion in life. Creating art is to constantly find passion and suspend it in time, always there to come back to, always a reminder of all that is fulfilling. 2. Sometimes I wonder if I will remember the little moments that made [...]
Whether you are the type of person who gets comments like this, leaves comments like this, or both, there is something to be learned from examining the sentence “I wish you would ________”. Especially in the photography world where people are sharing photos on a daily basis, that statement tends to come up a lot. [...]