I’m going to be posting on here regularly now and boy does it feel good.
When I first posted blogs as a 365 project I thought I would be done as soon as I hit 365.
Shortly after I finished I felt like something was missing after I stopped posting so I continued sporadically over the past 2 years but still that wasn’t enough for me.
It still feels like something is missing from my life when I don’t do this and the same goes for keeping a daily journal.
Without these two things, I notice that my photographic work suffers because of this.
The reason is that practice is everything.
I can’t stress that enough.
In all the times I’ve had success the one common denominator has always consistent practice 6 months prior.
The same goes for working out if you work out super hard for a week you won't see much in terms of results.
But if you work out for 30 minutes a day for 6 months you will see much more success at the end of that process.
All of the good in your life is a direct result of what you were doing 6 months ago.
The crazy part for me here is how the simplest actions compound over time.
For example, I used to shoot and edit every day after I worked a manual labor job.
I let that go for a while because photography is my job now but it is still my passion and the simple act of taking a few pictures a day is everything to me.
This is the simple practice or actions I am talking about.
You don’t need to kill yourself to get good at something you just need to have some consistency with it.
Now onto the pictures, you see below.
If you’ve ever watched the UFC odds are you’ve heard of Royce Gracie.
He’s the first winner in the history of the sport and his family invented Brazilian Jui Jitsu.
Below is Royce’s nephew Rayron Gracie, he just turned 19 years and he’s dominating the Jui Jitsu world right now.
Rayron’s father was a fighter too as well as his uncles and cousins.
While we were shooting these photos he told me about his father’s passing when he was around 5 years old and how that fuels him to be the best in his sport to carry on his family’s legacy.
I didn’t tell him about my father’s passing but boy did his story pull at my heartstrings.
I remember as a boy hearing the stories of how great of an athlete my dad was and it drove me so much to try and be like him.
That same sentiment still fuels me in my photography not wanting to waste the life my parents gave to me.
I think one thing that Rayron and myself both have in common is that we realize that life is really short.
You can either wake up with a passion and work your balls off at what you love or you can waste your life.
I myself waste a lot of time sitting behind a computer and this year I’m trying to change that so I can spend more time behind a lens meeting amazing people as I did for this series.
Thanks for reading this.
With love,
Atticus
