Thelonious✈️🎻📷

I have a weird obsession with metal tubes that go shhhhh ✈️🛫

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

I am just a masterpiece trying to master peace

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@ln4norris Whaaat😭

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@PUMASouthAfrica @Masandawana Drop that jersey 🤣tuuuuuuu

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@Masandawana Please change your profile pic tuu😮‍💨re nale di star tse 2

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Building a brand so strong such that clients won’t ask for discounts, but will ask if I still have space for them.

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Anyway. That's where I'm at. Still figuring it out.
Still watching. Still learning how to see people not just with my camera, but with my presence too.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

I think I became a photographer because I love watching people. Just... watching. The way they laugh when they forget someone's looking. The way their face changes when they remember something sad. I wanted to capture those moments. Not create them. Just... keep them.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

I don't have it figured out yet. But I'm trying. I'm learning that maybe the best direction is the kind they don't even notice. The kind that just makes someone forget they're being photographed at all.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

Not "stand here, look there." More like... "you're good. you're enough. let's just hang out and see what happens."

It's hard though. It's a weird line to walk. You want to guide without controlling. You want to help without interrupting.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

But lately I've been wondering, what if directing doesn't have to mean performing? What if it just means creating a space where someone feels safe enough to be themselves?

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In my head, directing always felt like... performing. Like I was asking someone to be someone else for a second. And that never sat right with me. I didn't become a photographer to build moments. I became one to witness them.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

But here's the thing I've realized after years of shooting: I've always struggled with directing people. And I think I finally know why.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

Even in death I’ll be superior to my past self.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

I have no prime. I will evolve until I die.

[Thelonious✈️🎻📷 @TheO_Pixels]

I have no prime. I will evolve until I die.

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@d_mmatladi 😹🫶🏼✨🔥

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Come to think of it, I almost quit photography. That would have been one of the worst decisions of my life.

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If you can’t handle the heat in the kitchen, get out of the kitchen.

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@TsheooGalane10 @ThaEuropeanLad Damn 😹🔥

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@d_mmatladi 😭😹😹

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@LoatinoverPound “Ong hanne nakwe Rio a dlala Right back, nou o jewa ho phala Manchester United” 😭😭😭

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@d_mmatladi ❤️✨one love

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The weight of everything right now is crushing me.. and yet, what's ahead is even bigger. if i'm already at my limit, how am i supposed to keep going?