No rules. No guidelines. No limits.

The fact that you can go outside each and every day without any high hopes or expectations, and still find something, that sparks your interest, that keeps you curious, that makes you inspired to continuously going out into the world, is what I love about photography. You really don’t have to come home with anything, but just something new, something that sparks your curiosity, something that you can look at, and say, huh…, maybe photography is endless, and there are infinite possibilities within this medium. The world is an endless canvas, the world is open, and there’s so much to photograph. There’s so many possibilities that can happen on the street corner, the different people, places, and things that you see along the way. This is what makes photography so inspiring to me. It’s the fact that it’s endless, and that there is unlimited opportunity to create. 

Set yourself in motion without preconceived notions.

I’ve been photographing for about a decade now. I can tell you from my experience that time tells all. This means, it will take you lots of time to become a better photographer. It took me about 2 to 3 years to master the basics, technical settings, and get the fundamentals down. For context, I first used a Nikon FM with black-and-white film when I was in high school around 16 years old, and then transitioned to my uncle’s Leica M3 with a 35mm lens. It was there that I learned how to frame on the streets, using the rangefinder, seeing the world through the glass window, making pictures through spontaneity, and work that made sense to me. Once I got to Baltimore and studied in university, I transitioned to using a Ricoh GRII. It was there I learned to liberate myself through using automatic modes, LCD screens, and making pictures in a way was 10x more efficient and effective at expressing how I see the world.

I arrived at a basketball court, where I was greeted by a beautiful scene. It was there that there was nice light, the golden hour during sunset. It was there that I learned to simply set the camera to P mode, point, and shoot. I learned that technical capabilities of cameras are advanced, and perhaps wise for me to continue using digital cameras as my medium of choice because it increased my love for photography.

Eternal Return to Day One

Photography requires practice and repetition, like basketball. I find that when I go out every day, I increase my chances of finding something. What’s amazing about photography is, you never know what you will find. I think that detaching yourself from the outcome or the photographs themselves is a very wise approach to daily practice. You should never expect to come home with something, but just go out each day, without real expectations at all. Allow yourself to be surprised by the results, and what the camera will see. I feel like each day I’m stepping back onto the court, dribbling my ball (camera) for the first time, and allowing myself time to grow with repetition and practice endlessly. Who knows, maybe I’ll finally top my first shot.

People only hate those that they can never amount to be. Hatred is rooted in deep insecurity and the fear of overcoming oneself.

People that hate are living in fear.
People fear those that they hate.

The reason why I love visiting Penns Landing, the Schuylkill River Trail, and the various parks throughout the city of Philadelphia is because of the open space. When I visit open spaces, I can feel myself becoming much more curious, and ultimately happier. I feel powerful when I can look out towards the horizon, feel the breeze, and be surrounded by trees, and the clouds up above. There’s also something about water, and being near bodies of water, such as rivers, lakes, and oceans that are always flowing and changing. Maybe Bruce Lee was right, we should be like water, formless, and become one with everything around us. When I consider street photography, I’m reminded of the connection I have to the environment, the street, and perhaps we should seek to become the street.

The word “articulate” has its etymological roots in Latin, stemming from the verb “articulare,” which means “to divide into joints” or “to speak distinctly.” This verb itself is derived from “articulus,” a diminutive of “artus,” which translates to “joint.” The development of the meaning involves the idea of something being clear and distinct, much like how joints are separate and defined parts of a structure.

Over time, “articulate” evolved in English to encompass both physical and verbal clarity. Physically, it refers to the connected structure of joints, as in “an articulated skeleton.” In terms of speech and expression, it describes someone who speaks in a clear, effective, and coherent manner, capable of expressing thoughts and ideas well. This dual meaning reflects the connection between the physical act of moving parts smoothly and the intellectual act of expressing thoughts clearly.

The Power of the Sun: Fueling Life, Photography, and Connection

I find that sunlight is the ultimate source of power—maybe our bodies are like batteries, and the sun is our charger. Two days ago, with plenty of sunlight, I walked along the riverside without a shirt, absorbing as much UV as possible. Sunlight is bliss. The next day, I felt an abundance of stored energy from basking in the light. Sun exposure doesn’t just fuel strength; it sets our biological clocks, allowing us to wake before sunrise and rest with the sunset.

Why Are People Anti-Sun?

While I was out tanning in the park recently, someone approached me, questioning how I could stand in the sun without sunglasses or a hat. He was fully covered, pale, and looked unused to sunlight. It made me wonder: Are people becoming too accustomed to the indoor lifestyle? Sunglasses might even trick our eyes into thinking we’re indoors, making it harder for our bodies to adjust to sunlight naturally. I believe gradual sun exposure is key; anyone can develop a tan and benefit from sunlight. To me, a healthy tan represents vitality and energy.

Sunlight and Health: A Natural Connection

The sun is why we’re here, talking, breathing, and thinking. It’s positioned at the perfect distance from Earth to sustain life. The Bible even starts with light: “Let there be light.” I interpret this as a reminder of how essential light is to life. I’m grateful for the sun, for water, and for simple pleasures like grass-fed beef. These are the essentials that keep me grounded and happy.

Painting with Light: Photography as Endless Potential

Let’s not forget that photography is “painting with light.” The way light interacts with surfaces creates an infinite canvas. No two photos are the same, as the light is constantly changing, forming new shapes, textures, and moods. Embrace this change. In photography, your next shot is your best shot, an endless journey of curiosity and evolution.

“Photography is about capturing change and becoming. Your next photograph is your best photograph.”

Go Beyond: Embracing Life as a Journey

Every day, bring your camera and snapshot your way through life. Find beauty in the mundane and the overlooked. In photography, as in life, it’s about the journey, not the end result. Forget about the accolades, the galleries, and the contests. Treat life like a video game—explore, enjoy, and embrace novelty. Photography should be second nature, not a chore. Use lightweight, compact digital cameras to make this journey more accessible. Every day on the street, new stories unfold, each one offering an opportunity to see life differently.

Elevate Your Soul with Photography

Maybe the purpose of street photography is to elevate the human experience to new heights. Rather than focusing on tormented or dark themes, let’s create from a place of joy, curiosity, and abundance. The world doesn’t need more tortured artists; it needs those who are strong, curious, and filled with life. Joyful art reflects a healthy soul. Find your Dionysian energy in weightlifting, in travel, in exploration—not in substances that dull your senses.

Practical Suggestions for a Fulfilling Life

1. Start each day from an elevated surface: When I stand on the cliff behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I look out at the river, trees, and architecture, and I’m reminded of life’s endless opportunities.
2. Embrace the simplicity of one meal a day: Fasting sharpens my mind and strengthens the connection between body and mind, essential for street photography.
3. Recognize that the camera is an extension of the body: A clear mind and empty gut help me follow my intuition and capture the world with sharp acuity.

By basking in sunlight, moving through life with a camera, and embracing each day with curiosity and joy, we uplift our souls. There’s a world to conquer, one photo at a time.

“Stop consuming, and start moving.”

Key Takeaways

• The sun is the ultimate source of power: Embrace sunlight for strength, health, and setting your natural rhythm.
• Photography is painting with light: Treat each photograph as an opportunity to capture the changes in light and life.
• Elevate the human experience: Create from joy, not torment, and let your art reflect vitality.
• Live each day as a journey: Go beyond the mundane, approach life as a game, and embrace every new opportunity.

In a world filled with limitless beauty, use photography to deepen your lust for life and find inspiration in the simple things that make each day extraordinary.

How to become stronger? Eat more beef.

Test your limits with beef consumption. Don’t eat breakfast or lunch, and buy 3-5 pounds of ground beef. See what your body’s limit is. Just eat until satiation and stop once you are full.

1. Walking is life
2. The importance of sleep
3. Why lift weights?
4. Sunbathe as much as possible
5. Testosterone is happiness
6. How to become a demigod
7. Treat your body like art
8. My fasting journey
9. My carnivore diet journey
10. Coffee as a creative stimulant
11. Carnivore diet is economic
12. The war on meat
13. Stop eating processed food
14. Drinking alcohol is strange
15. Listen to your gut
16. Bad weather, bad mood?
17. The great outdoors
18. Why I love nature
19. Being indoors is not healthy
20. Why I love cycling
21. Anti-anti-social
22. Clothing is armor
23. Sports are silly
24. The body is democratic
25. Spartan flex
26. Best carnivore diet meal
27. Best shoes for street photography
28. Thoughts on fasting
29. Open spaces elevate your mood
30. One meal a day
31. Visit an elevated surface every day
32. The truth about health and art
33. More meat, more power, more photographs
34. Increase your strength for the sake of making more art
35. Stay sober
36. Sleep and strength
37. Only eat if you’re hungry
38. Fasting and walking
39. Sunlight is bliss
40. Jogging is unhealthy
41. The benefit of long walks
42. Sleep as early as possible
43. Fasting brings you closer to god
44. Move more
45. Take a deep breath
46. The health hive mind
47. How to stay lean
48. Steak Prep
49. Peace amongst chaos
50. The Power of the Sun

I find that sunlight is the ultimate source of power. Maybe our bodies are like batteries and the sun is the charger. Two days ago it was extremely nice outside with lots of sunlight and I made sure to walk around without a shirt on by the riverside and absorb as much UV rays as possible. What I realize is, basking in sunlight is bliss. Not to mention, the following day, I felt like I had an insane abundance of power that was stored up from the day before. Also, it helps me get better sleep, setting my circadian rhythm or my natural biological clock, waking up before sunrise and sleeping with he sunset.

Why are people anti-sun?

a few days ago, while I was tanning in the park, this guy came up to me and was questioning how I’m able to stand in the sunlight for so long. He told me to put on a hat at least or wear some sunglasses like himself. He was completely covered up with a hat, sunglasses, and full beard. He had very pale skin and looks like he hasn’t been outside for a while. Maybe people are becoming more accustomed to the indoor lifestyle, and because of this, get used to wearing sunglasses. Maybe sunglasses trick your eyes into thinking that you’re still inside, making it harder for your eyes and body to adapt to the sunrise and the way that it interacts with your skin. I think that people can get together, perhaps you just have to do gradual increments overtime. I think that having tan skin means that you are full of vitality and energy and healthy. I feel so much better when I’m tan, in the sun, and absorb as much sunlight in my day as possible.

It seems that a lot of people think that the sun causes cancer and that too much exposure is unhealthy. To me, this makes no sense. The main reason why we are here right now, breathing, talking, and thinking is because the sun is positioned at the perfect distance from the Earth. Without the sun, there are no people. I just use this simple fact alone to guide my thoughts in regards to sunlight. Even in the first couple of words in the Bible in the book of Genesis of the Old Testament, you read that God has created light on the first day.

Let there be light!

Without the darkness, there is no light. On the rainy and cloudy days like this, I’m thankful for the good days, the days when the light is out, and the sun is peering beyond the clouds. I’m very grateful for the things, such as sunlight, water, and grass fed beef. There’s very simple things and pleasures that keep me happy.

Painting with light

Let us not forget that photography is merely painting with light. When I consider this, and the way that light casts upon the surfaces around me, the world is an endless canvas for me to draw endlessly upon. There’s infinite potential with photography because of the nuances and changes of light and the way it etches shapes and gives form to objects, people, and places. Because of the change that light provides, you can never make the same photo twice. It does not matter if it’s of the same thing or even a separate photographer at the same place, the light will never stay the same. Perhaps we should embrace this notion of change and create photographs in a stream of becoming. This means, your next photograph is your best photograph, and the goal is to remain curious, continuously evolve, change, and transcend, like a stream ever flowing.

Go beyond

As we go through every day lives, always bring a camera with you. Snapshot your way through life, and embrace the mundane world around you. Find new ways to uplift the things that are seemingly overlooked or banal, and create something from nothing.

With a camera in hand, nothing can stop you, nothing can break your spirit, and your lust for life.

We must learn to appreciate the journey and let go of the outcome. Forget about the pictures, results, galleries, books, contests, and all of the things within the realm of photography. We must continuously push our rock uphill even if we never make it to the top. One fun approach I have to life is to treat it like a video game. Video games are meant to be fun, and so should our photographic journey and life. It shouldn’t feel like a chore to take pictures, but it should be second nature to us. Lighten the load of your rock, and embrace the new, compact, digital camera systems to make the game easier to play. When you’re out there on the street, you never know what stories will unfold on the street corner. The people you meet along the way, things that you see, and experience, are what make this journey worth it in the end. Like in a video game, there are endless stories and paths that you can take. There’s new ways that you can play each day that makes the novelty of video games so enticing to players. Use photography as a way to increase your lust for life, discover new places, and find novel ways to approach the same thing each day.

Elevate your soul

When I consider the goal of street photography, maybe it is to elevate the human experience to new heights that have never been seen before. not only do our photographs become an abstraction of the street and life itself, but it reflects inward on our soul. There is a strange trend towards the tormented artist, the overly emotional, nostalgia, sensational, dark, morose, and emo aesthetic. Think of artists like Basquiat or Pollock. Basquiat died at my age, 27, from a heroin overdose. Pollock died in a car crash while under the influence of alcohol. We should stay sober and find our Dionysian state outside of drugs and alcohol. Embrace danger, and the chaos artists seek in new ways such as weightlifting and travel. We should strive to create from a joyous state of abundance, and ultimately your photographs will reflect this joy, curiosity, and childlike spirit. The world doesn’t need another tormented, drunk, or emo artist. The world needs more dangerous and gay monsters. Achieving the state of abundance and joy is very simple. Just go for long walks, get more sun exposure, eat more meat, and get deep sleep. Also, delete your Instagram, and uninstall all media applications from your phone.

Stop consuming, and start moving.

One practical suggestion I have is to start your day off from an elevated surface. When I visit the cliff behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I can look out towards the river, trees, and beautiful architecture. By quite literally elevating myself at this height, I can see beyond the horizon, and recognize the infinite and endless opportunity to explore that the world provides you. Just think, you could live to 120 years old, and never see everything that life has to offer. In this world there is so much to see, do, and explore, and we should remind ourselves this by gazing out at the horizon, and recognize that we can transcend and go beyond it.

Another important thing that I’ve been adopting in my lifestyle is eating one meal a day. When I am fasted, and have no food in my belly, the connection between my mind and my body is extremely sharp. Let us remember that the camera is an extension of your body and your mind, as your mind and your eyes are connected, and your oculus, your two eyes, are what allow you to perceive the world, with sharp visual acuity, recognizing the patterns in both nature and human behavior. This is something to consider, as when your gut is digesting, and there is food within it, I find that your mind and body connection is disrupted. I believe that we must follow our intuition, listen to our gut, and trust our natural instincts went on the street. By remaining fasted, you can tap into that godlike intuition that you possess deep within your physical gut. My theory is that God is with within your body, within your physiology, within your gut.

When you are filled with abundance, allow it to flow outwards! Let’s shine as bright as possible while we are here. The secret to joy is to just be under the sun?