Alex: What do you enjoy about being a photographer?
Irvin: Being a photographer pushes me to exercise my creativity to new heights. It enables me to create and recreate worlds, ideas, and feelings. It allows me travel to places. It allows me to meet and interact with different people and interpret their layers of complexities.
Photography allows me to tell stories in many ways. It is kind of spiritual. It’s not just an art, not just a journey, it is something really personal.
Being a photographer means being able to time travel on your own. That’s what I love about it.
Alex: You are a brilliant self-taught professional photographer. How do you educate yourself to take better pictures?
Irvin: Thank you Alex!
Yes, I am self-taught but I wouldn’t be confident enough to say that I am brilliant enough like the masters in the various fields of photography.
Hmm, I keep shooting photos. Just keep taking photos. I believe that is how you continuously develop your eye and your style. Take note of other photographer’s work and always see the trends (especially if you want to take fashion as your niche). Never ever be content. Never be afraid to experiment.
Alex: In your opinion, what makes a good picture stand out from the average?
Irvin: A good picture awakens the senses. It moves you. It may disturb you, or amuse you, or puzzle you, but if it evokes and stir something inside you, I believe it is a good picture.
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Snippet of my Interview feature with Alex of Celebrity English from Celebrity English’s blog :)
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Alex is a writer,teacher,blogger,Interviewer, designer.
He enjoyed being in the education field for over 20 years; and is a language learner for longer. The adventure has allowed him to meet and work with amazing people in North America and overseas.He hopes to create a “language bridge” that links textbook and real life language.he hopes the language bridge will empower people on their own exciting journey! To do this, Alex will use “Celebrity English” for common conversation topics.
