Too Fine to Price Fish
There's this thing I believe: if you dress too well to the market, they'll most likely hike the prices for you. It's not written anywhere, but you can feel it - the way traders scan your outfit before telling you the cost. It's like your clothes speak for
A reminder that God used photography to change my life. The journey hasnโt always been easy, but God never fails.
To everyone who believed and still believes in this dream, every client, sponsor, friend, and supporter, I say thank you.
#7YearsOfConsistency#ThatImageMaker
I got my first professional camera in 2017, and that marked the beginning of my professional career. Before then, I was taking pictures, but I never imagined photography would become my profession.
After attending Image Facultyโs masterclass in 2019, I experienced a shift, and my approach to photography changed for the better.
This piece is titled โ7 Years of Consistency.โ
No matter how much experience I gain, I still feel a quiet tension before every shoot. Not from doubt, but from care, the awareness that every project deserves my full attention, and the drive to do better than I did yesterday.
Ben Affleck and Scott Adkins playing brothers in โThe RIPโ is what we call Perfect casting.
The resemblance too close mehn and Ben does look like the elder brother.
๐๐๐ฉโ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐.
If youโre a creator,
if youโre building anything at all,
you need to read.
And when I say read,
I mean read intensively.
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When youโre constantly trying to give people things:
โข Content
โข Ideas
โข Value
you also have to be ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐จ๐๐ก๐ ๐ช๐ฅ.
That doesnโt happen by vibes.
It happens through ๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐๐๐๐.
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Because when you donโt read:
โข you donโt have many ideas
โข youโre not sure what to do
โข you donโt know what not to do
And that confusion shows in your work.
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Reading has been pushed so low that people barely see it as important anymore.
Youโll see people jump into things:
โข without studying
โข without learning deeply
โข without sitting with information
And then they wonder why they feel stuck.
โธป
But studying matters.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐จ.
So, from someone whoโs taking personal development seriously,
here are a few books Iโd recommend if youโre a creator or a builder:
โข Steal Like an Artist
โ For creators. This one has the sauce.
If you canโt get the hard copy, you can find it on https://t.co/TDirUG8edD.
โข Crossing the Chasm
โ For builders and founders.
This book explains why many great products fail after early hype โ and how to move from early adopters to mass adoption.
If youโre building something real, this helps you understand market timing and positioning.
โข Deep Work
โ For anyone who struggles with focus.
It teaches you how to do meaningful, high-quality work in a world full of distractions and why shallow work keeps people stuck.
โข The Lean Startup
โ For builders (always).
This book shows you how to build, test, and improve ideas quickly without wasting time or resources on things people donโt actually want.
Thatโs it for now
So read, then build.
Gm ๐
Still Before Joy
๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ญ
Creative director: @thatimagemaker
PS: This editorial is an independent creative work and is not affiliated with, commissioned by, or published by Vogue.
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