The hardest part of photography for me, is when I have to engage into a situation with my heart. It can be fruitful for your photography but it can also be a threat to how you view a situation and you can lose perspective.

Over the years I have begun to shoot more with my heart and less with my head.  A progressive journey that has taken me all over the map mentally, emotionally and physically. The journey is similar to anyone who starts to engage into their form of creative process in order to provoke a primal string in a persons heart. There are ups and downs that take you in directions that you wouldn’t normal go. It can sometimes be illogical to people who observe you, and trying to explain why you shoot what you did can be mind numbingly hard.

But what really happens is your images carry weight, a weight which your voice can’t explain away. People begin to understand situations, moments, emotions. They are transmitted to a place in time. That is when you know your heart was absorbed into your creation and transmitted to the viewer.

Furthermore, the purpose of shooting with your heart is that it shows your love for your content, and allows others to experience your sincerity, love and joy. Thus you have done a greater good by allowing yourself to be vulnerable alongside your subjects, allowing the viewer to then as well engage with all parties creating a beautiful cycle of engagement.

This is an ongoing thought process I have had for a while. If you have anything to add, I’d love to hear it.