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My new year’s creative resolution is to shoot often, experiment like crazy and make mistakes all while researching photography in books and galleries. Happy new year and resolutions

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loooove this!

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Start a personal photo project and do different kind of work, more towards lifestyle photography

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yesss can't wait!

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A goal is to continue regrowing my love for photography and pushing myself to go back out in the chaos of the city to make environmental portraits again.

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Oh man, I cannot WAIT. It's been great to see your fire be lit again by the Q2M.

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Dec 20, 2022Liked by Wesley Verhoeve

oh, let's see...my main goal is to do more often intentional shots with models/actors/etc. Forcing myself to think of the small details and to put more meaning in them. Am I overthinking it? :)

And secondly to work more on my personal project on photography and get out of my comfort zone.

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excellent goals!!!

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Dec 20, 2022Liked by Wesley Verhoeve

Learning how to use a flash is one of my goals this coming year. I just bought my first flash this past weekend and am excited to learn more. I also want to explore black and white filters. I’ve never really used them (minus a few trichromes) and want to see how they change my landscape photographs.

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yes yes yes to both flash and filters. you're gonna love it ben!

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Thanks, Wesley, for the continued inspiration!

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Well I guess I have some reading to catch up on.

2023 is shaping up to be a big year my partner and I's project. We have our first gallery exhibition together this spring, and will be publishing a book as well.

I also want to keep improving how we share the work digitally which can be hard. Large format portraits aren't really meant for a Small screen.

Beyond that it's just moving forward and getting better at what we do on the technical side.

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super cool project Adam, excited to follow along and see what you figure out for digital sharing.

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Thanks! Thinking and hoping that substack will be a good place for it.

Cheers

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Two main goals for me in 2023.

To really dive into my personal project on grief

To connect with more creatives, potentially have a mentor and assist others :)

Happy holidays Wesley, hope you have a good Christmas and New Year

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Beautiful answer Chris! I love this for you, all good stuff. Thank you for sharing!

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