Last night’s storm left lots of small branches on the paths throughout our neighborhood. But fortunately I saw no large trees or branches down in this area today.
Though from a distance the path looked messy, when I looked closely I saw beauty. I brought my camera on my walk this afternoon and kept finding the debris on the path that looked like tiny wild altars to my eye.
The beauty I see will not be the beauty you see. The trick in life is in
Finding Your Place
the place that brings you meaning and joy.
The big challenge of the photographic life (and probably, life in general) is not to get to first place, but to find your place. The greater task of the artist is not to make something others like—the crowd is fickle—but to make something that you like.
— David duChemin, The Contact Sheet/May 29, 2022
I have come to understand that making photographs is my search for meaning in life and that all of my images are in a way self-portraits.
Voice is about your taste, not theirs—though that doesn’t mean we need to be contrary about it. Voice is not found when we try to be unlike others, but when we get closer and closer to being most like ourselves. The former is comparative, a never-ending movement away from what everyone else is doing; it’s being different for the sake of being different. The latter is a movement towards something much more specific: our true selves.
— David duChemin, The Contact Sheet/May 29, 2022
It no longer matters to me whether others like my photographs or find meaning in them. What matters is that I find joy and meaning in making and editing my photographs.
Finding Peace in This Life
Here is an excerpt of a poem for all who grieve the recent mass shootings in our country.
My hope for you is that you are making peace, speaking out, giving kindness, and taking small generative steps in your life this week and always.
And you, my friends, how are you finding your place in your life? How are you making peace in your life?
May you walk in beauty.
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