skb day 14 accelerate

This seems to be the action word for 2016.

Everyone seem to feel that all aspect of life and living are picking up speed, or maybe more correctly, have picked up speed. Time just goes by so quickly, before you turn around, it is gone. I am no expert on time, but I do not believe that some things, like time can change on us just like that. 60 seconds will always be one minute, and 60 minutes will always be one hour. So how is it that you cannot now complete the same task in the same time as before? According to my scientist cousin Tony, is it that we are slowing down?

What other answer is there? It sounds logical, that we get slower as we get older. That is why Bolt will not be forever the fastest man in the world. But that is an extreme case, and maybe a bad example. In a different area, this slowing down is upsetting, and causes stress, and breeds violence. Young people are not willing to tolerate the natural process of the slowing down of older people in service delivery. They get impatient all to quickly, hard words, fly, tempers flare, then violence erupt, most of it with delayed action results in some communities.

To counter this slowing down the youths have decided to accelerate  things. But youths dealing with youths going slowly do not seem to have a problem with that, so we come back to the same old situation of yesteryear, the intolerance of youths to people in the next age group. If you are not 18 to 25, go and sit down.  This mentality does not affect all youths, but it can be contagious. We live in times where we have to learn to closely guard our minds and that of our youths. We need to get aware, fully aware of what is happening around us, inside and outside our space, and the impact it can and will have on our networks.

As it relates to photography I suspect that acceleration towards photographic education and instruction should be the goal of each photographer, each as in every single person who feel or believe they are a photographer of any sort or flavour. Whether you don't know diddly squat about photography or you have a phd in photography.  Photography is not like some subjects where you cannot learn any more [so to speak] there is no end to photographic instruction and knowledge.

This year I am back to photography school, the YouTube University. I see a couple photographers that I wish to follow more closely this year, to see where they will carry their photography, their viewers and followers. The more you appreciate photography the more your own photographic style will improve. Photography is a product of you, the individual, the hardware and software are only the tools to assist with your expression. So know your tools inside out.

This past Carnival season I saw photography in skn from a different perspective, like an overseas  spectator. I see people in a few short months with a will to become photographers, making great pictures. I have not looked at all the thousands of carnival pictures posted on Facebook, nor did I compare the 'work' of the new and the not so new photographers, but I could see a new vibrancy in images taken by the "recent" photographers, who are not being bound by certain traditional photographic thinking.

This new creative look is what is driving photography all over the world. Breaking the rules as it was referred to back them, is now becoming the norm. I believe that photographers in skn have a natural creative photographic ability [maybe it is the water], but I do endorse study of traditionally photography, so that breaking the rules can be knowledgeably consistent.

2016 seem to be the year selected by most for acceleration, or accelerated processes, as photographers we need to accelerate our quest for knowledge, seek it out, bookmark, read, view, share, copy, review and review.  What you need to know you need to know now, not next year. I am hopeful that skn would grow a few photography clubs in 2016, one or more in Nevis and St Kitts.  If there are enough serious members, they may be able to "Associate" and start an International organization's chapter in either Nevis or St Kitts. Service organizations have chapters in SKN, so why not any photography organizations?  It is time that we go more international with our arts.

This year my inbox is still open to talk to anyone about photography. The new resident photographer is commandeering all my photo gear, and doing great. Youths now have a photographic opportunity not before available in skn, and they should capitalize on it. There is nothing to stop any skn photographer from becoming world famous. It is what Liamuiga is capable of doing for all of us.

Have a great day and keep the skn photography alive.