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Arthur Drooker's avatar

Adam: Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this important concern for photographers working on personal projects.

The first list you created for yourself were individual subjects, compiled from afar. But once you were there, in Australia, your list became more refined, the words were less about individual subjects and more about over-arching themes. This difference is all part of the process of developing a personal project. It demands being open to adapting one’s vision to what is actually there on location and going for it in a very disciplined way. That’s when you have a vision.

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Drew Hopper's avatar

Hey Adam, thank you for this insightful journal entry. My biggest struggle has always been understanding those archetypal themes, and I'm easily distracted or overwhelmed by a single image. Coming from more of an artistic approach rather than journalistic, I've always focused too much on the single images and it's what holds me back at times. I made a similar list to your initial list for my outback NSW trip, which ended up working out for a loosely constructed personal project, but now I go through those images nearly 10 months later I admit, I'm struggling to make sense of it...

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