I have a dream to earn a living providing a valuable service that involves creativity and beauty. A dream to enjoy what I do in order to make an income and to create something that in some way speaks to people. There are a lot of ways I see that dream coming to fruition and one of them is through photography.
I've always been one to hesitate to try something if I wasn't sure that it was going to work out. I have put off pursuing dreams because of all the time it would take to build, with no certainty of success.
What a crappy attitude.
I love taking pictures. I'd love to run a photography business. So that's what I'm working on. This blog is intended to be a chronicle of the journey. I'm learning a lot as I just dive in and go for it. I haven't gone to school (aside from a semester and a half of film school) and I'm likely not going to. I have been studying images and photography for about thirteen years informally, and now I'm continuing my education in a more formal and experiential manner. Which is to say that I am being disciplined about shooting, shooting, shooting and learning all I can from the online photography community.
RKH Pictures is born out of a certain character in a certain movie. He once had dreams of being a veterinarian but is now working at a convenience store. One night he is dragged to the back alley and told that if he isn't on his way to becoming a veterinarian in six months he would be killed. People quip about being scared to death. Raymond K Hessel was scared to life. He was awakened from the slumber many succumb to under the weight of life.
Once, I desired to be an agent of awakening. I believed that honest encounters with beauty and truth would break the bars of the cages we build around ourselves for protection from the pains of life; disrupt the life that is not life that we muddle through because we have been convinced it is the only way to survive. I decided that if I owned a production company one day, I would name it RKH Pictures.
The first soul RKH Pictures has helped awaken is my own. Perhaps that will be the only one.
And if it is. That will be enough.
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