jeremybrake

Hello everyone! To start this off I want to ask you some questions. What is it that makes you feel fulfilled in your life? What is it that makes these things fulfilling? “Happiness is a useless word, we should use the word fulfilled instead” -Alain de Botton from the school of life. Learning from others One of the most fulfilling things in my life is learning from other people. I love reading literature and philosophy […]

Hello friend! Recently I wrote about the different places that I’ve done street photography but today I want to talk to you about what street photography is. Street photography in its simplest definition is taking photographs of people, typically in a candid manner within a public space. There are lots of different offshoots or subgenres that modern day street photography encompasses such as… Portrait street photography Portrait street photography. Typically the photographer will ask the subject

Hello friend! This is part two of my series on street photography in different cities. If you haven’t read part one I recommend you start with that one first. small towns are serene I love the small town. I love it despite the fact that it’s only really a suburb with no more than a handful of stores and residencies. I love this place because wherever you go there’s almost always a great view of the

This is part one in a two part series where I talk a bit about how the place that you take street photographs effects the photographs themselves. First off Halifax. Street photography was born in the fashionable cities of Paris and New York so it’s only natural that most of its practitioners photograph in large cities themselves. Shooting Street Photographs in Halifax Halifax may not be as big as the two previously mentioned cities but

Hello friend, today I want to talk about some of the reasons that I love photography, and all forms of creativity for that matter. Photography gives me a goal to work towards I love photography and writing because I enjoy looking toward the final product. The final piece that I can hold in my hands is the greatest reward. Like a carpenter seeing the walls of a house come up it feels good to see