You Suck

Being a photographer is tough. You can’t make a living. You have restraints. Gear is all that matters. If you don’t have the newest gear, you suck. If you don’t go to this workshop, or use this software, you’re wasting your time. This is all BS.

            Photography is an art, and just like everything else in life you aren’t going to start at the top. We all hear “you can’t” or “you won’t make it.” Quite often as photographers who are just now starting out. You build your story and life off what you are told you can’t to.

            It’s the ignorance of others and the motivation from people you look up too that keeps you going. That little encouragement from your teacher can go a long way. You have to Keep creating. Keep doing what you love. Keep creating. Don’t listen to the people that have told you “you can’t” but take that and use it as motivation. Who knows where you will end up.

It matters

A lot of things in life matter. It’s different for everybody on what does matter. One thing I think that matters in life for a lot of people is the power to be able to capture some of life’s greatest events and moments that matter to people and that can be through the power of photography.

            Photography is a part of my everyday life and I am here to tell you why it is matters. To be able to capture a moment 1 in 1,000^th of a second, I think that right there is pretty powerful. Life happens in a flash and we have the ability to tell other people what is important to us. We save the moments that matter to us and we use a photograph to tell that important story of that day.

            Photographs have power. They can move us, persuade and let us know what is happening. We can learn people’s emotion just by looking at the photograph. I personally have used images to be able to capture the subject’s emotion in ways they didn’t think I could. Human emotion always is found in the photograph. While suffering from depression for a short time in my life, photography gave me life. Photographs can tell the world what you see. You see the image a different way and you take an image in a different way. That’s power.

It matters that you can take an image, tell a story, show emotions, capture life’s greatest moments, as well as show the world what you as the photographer sees and how it is different from everyone else.

Who I am

I am Evan Luecke a Journalism major at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and was adopted by Kirk and Cathy Luecke. I currently run track at the university and in my free time I enjoy making vlogs, and doing photography. My main events in track are the 5 and 10k.