Striving for more

I've realized something recently. For several months, I've thought I liked where I stand photography-wise. I thought I was close to being a professional-level photographer. I thought I was producing really good photos, but recently I've come to realize that I don't like a lot of my photos. I honestly don't like them. My photos feel very ordinary and this really isn't the direction I planned to take when I started to take this hobby seriously.

I think I need to be more edgy, more artistic and more high-fashion in my portraits.

Instead of feeling bad about this, though, I feel really, really inspired. I feel like I've been too comfortable with my work and this made me very boring and stagnant as a photographer.

Realizing I don't like my photos may be for the best, it might just help me grow as a photographer. Hopefully.

Movies I want to watch

1) Sweeney Todd - Johnny Depp!!! Need I say more? I lurve you, Mr. Depp!!!

2) There Will be Blood - featuring one of my big-screen crushes of old, Daniel Day Lewis! I missed him. Haven't watched a movie of his in a long time. Supposedly its a commanding performance that will most likely bag him an Oscar nomination.

3) Gone Baby Gone - I bought the DVD already. It is only a matter of time...

4) Control

5) Eastern Promises

6) The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

7) No Country for Old Men

8) Into the Wild

9) Michael Clayton

10) La Vie en Rose

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The last few months, I've really started getting a kick over watching movies alone in the cinemas. I really, really hope some of these movies make it over to Gateway.