“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Passion can easily turn into a word that is so often thrown out into the world, uttered by people who seem to have a distinct lack of passion or by people who say it so often, that it loses [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", brooke shaden, career choice, inspiration, life, logic, passionate, passionate about photography, photographer, photography, reasonI didn’t shoot this as a professional project, just something lovely that makes my heart flutter. So often I find myself in situations that I wish I could capture as perfectly as I feel them, but of course that is a nearly impossible task because I can never quite relay just how much I [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", billowing dress, brooke shaden, dreamy, fantasy, field, girl, inspiration, movement, moving forward, running, winnie the pooh, words to live byEver since I can remember I have always talked about the many ways in which I haven’t changed much from the time I was a child to now that I am an adult. I would say that I have been the same height and weight for ten years, that I have had the same hair [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", artist, definition, description, discovery, examination, growth, inspiration, life, life-changing, photographer, selfLast spring, right around this time, I got to meet Lindsay Adler for the first time. If you don’t know who she is, click this link right now. Your life will be better for it. When we first met, I thought we had little in common – she shot fashion, I shot fine art; she [...]
I don’t know how many other people do this, but I keep a folder on my desktop called “In Progress” and it contains every picture that I’m currently working on. In truth, it mostly contains all of the pictures I should work on but am not working on. And beyond that, it mostly mostly contains pictures that [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", amish farm, behind the scenes photography, blown, breeze, brooke shaden, clouds, fine art photographer, girl, image evaluation, lancaster pa, landscape, leaf, leaves, picture critique, storm, surreal photography, windI sound like a broken record, but this was the hardest month I have ever judged for these contests. There is so much soul and depth that goes in to so many of these pictures, and while I think the images listed below are exceptional, I think that all are worthy of recognition and praise. [...]
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 am the type of person who has never had anything taught to me in the photography world. I never took a class, attended a workshop, or really had any interest in doing those things. I’ve always been the one teaching! So when Lara Jade asked me to review her DVD, I was both intrigued [...]