The end of an Era

Alyssa Noel has added a photo to the pool:

This marks the end of an Era and the beginning of passion


(Reposted) Photography of 2011 and goals for 2012-


My art defines who i am, it is how i communicate with people and grow as a person. Looking back at my photos I saw a very creative artistic girl grow into a very mainstream woman virtually obsessed with looking perfect and recreating dull lifeless high fashion photos. I let the big shiny spotlight of possibly being noticed through superficial ways get in the way of myself as an artist. I lost myself in superficial ways right as i began to grow creatively as a photographer. Suddenly my photos lost emotion, lost meaning and lost creative beauty. I want 2012 to be the year i grow as an artist, It literally is the most important thing to me as a person to find myself and my artistic style, i havent found it yet and i wont until i feel at peace with my growth as a photographer. Last year i lost my passion for flickr.. It was nothing too serious just kind of sad but i thought it was because i was growing out of it. I will never grow out of it, what really happened is my photos turned into pointless boring emotionless meaningless pictures that i thought would look "pretty" but instead butchered my artistic identity. Now is when i not "reinvent" myself, now is when i find myself and really start as an artist. With my new camera and skills in editing i know i have the ability to take photos id be proud of, photos with stories and meaning and photos that tell a story. The most amazing phenomenal thing about art is being able to tell a story and make a difference through telling that story, one that makes people think and one that draws from the photo itself giving it more interesting importance. Being fearless is important and being lazy is what id consider the most horrifically tragic sin, I wouldnt call myself lazy I just couldnt bring myself to continue on with photos every day for my 365 and it sucked the life out of me as a photographer. I will still consistently try to make photos in my free time but they will be more spur of the moment and more thought out with meaning behind them.