I’ve been thinking a lot about what I can do to practice photography in the physical world lately.
How can I step away from the digital world and into the tangible with my work?

This is so important because when you work on a screen your images can look so tiny and all the great detail they posses can easily be missed.
You also don’t really get to see all of your work as a whole when it’s on the screen…yes you can make a contact sheet but seeing 150 images that you want to edit down to 12 images on a 15” screen sucks.
The other issue and I’d say it’s the biggest one is Instagram.
It becomes very distracting to curate your images when you are getting instant feedback via likes in seconds.
This is why working with prints blocks out other’s opinions and strengthens your photographic voice. (Confidence)

Below I ordered prints off amazon. (Yeah they sell printing services too.)
I made these prints via contact sheets and when the images came in they were far too small for my normal photo journal, I could hardly see anything in them but I decided to lay them out and glue them into another journal just for the memories.

What ended up happening was that I glued them into this journal and didn’t look at them for 5 months and when I re-opened it I actually grew a liking for what I had laid out.

So even if you are never going to use the photos you put in your photo journal there is so much to appreciate and to learn from this process.

Don’t let “likes” distract you from your vision.