Focus - Jennifer B. Hudson

I have a confession to make. 

I'm addicted to Framed Network. 

Tons and tons of photography inspiration!

It's also the place where I came across 

a beautiful video featuring Jennifer B. Hudson

and her 'studio in the desert'. 

I think I watched it three times in a row,

then rushed over to her site for more,

and couldn't stop staring

at her ethereal portraits

that seemed to stir something

in my very core. 
Pure, organic, otherworldly
- poetic, yet powerful. 

Jennifer Hudson kindly gave me permission

to share some of her images

here on my site - 

I come away with a sense of awe
over the quality of her work,
yet stricken by the underlying humility
that's ever so encouraging.
To quote some of her words from the video:

“There are so many days 

when you just don’t want to get up and make art ever again, 

and then there are days 

when you will feel as triumphant as an eagle,

 and there’s going to be everything in between. 

But you have to trust that gift.

 - I truly believe that there is a capacity in every person 

that has chosen this path to make great work, 

but you have to trust that,

and study and work for it, 

and it’s there.”

P.S. I find that I'm increasingly in love with my camera,

and have an insatiable appetite to learn much, much more. 

And it feels like a natural progression

for my little nook here

to include a little more thoughts and inspiration

on those lines.

So I added a new label - Focus -,

this post being the first of hopefully a string of others 

 on the theme in times to come.

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All images courtesy of Jennifer B. Hudson