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The Art Of Noticing
If you’re reading this, it is highly likely that your photographic journey of a thousand miles has already begun. We are all self-taught to some extent, sponging up information from books, tapping into the huge repository of knowledge on LuLa, checking out the work of other artists we admire and gaining experience through good old-fashioned trial and error.
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Some of us have supplemented this with formal study and certification; others have taken workshops in everything from profiling and printing to street photography. We now own some fine camera equipment and along the way we probably switched brand loyalties once or twice. Maybe even more :)
If we pause and look back at our work, over the last few years, we can see patterns emerging. There’s a routine to what, when, how and where we shoot. Many will also have experimented successfully with personal projects and self-publishing. So that’s it. We’ve arrived at the destination! We can see, shoot and share. O...

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Olaf is a photographer, writer and researcher living in London, UK. He believes good art leaves space for the viewer to engage with the work and has a life long fascination with creativity. Exploring new and different ways in which we can take our work as artists to new levels. As Robert Frost said, “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader’. His work has been; featured in UK fine art and photo magazines, exhibited in UK, US and European venues and endorsed by The World Wildlife Fund who distributed 5,000 ebook copies of Olaf’s book, ‘Antarctica, A Sense of Place’ to help raise money for environmental causes. His interest in storytelling also extends beyond photography. He has spoken on the art of using storytelling to improve business communications on various platforms in London, Basel, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Athens and Chicago. http://www.olafwilloughby.com/
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