I just saw a post yesterday that said something like ‘born to make art. Forced to make content’. And that really struck me because that’s what 95% of everything is now…

I don’t care about most of what people make or post because it’s usually an ad of some sort, or trying to sell their course…

Reels also killed most creativity and everything is just a variation or copy/paste of some ‘trend’.

If someone starts a video filming themselves looking surprised with their mouth open or hand over their mouth (even for friends), I skip to the next one immediately. It’s just fake and so over the top – nobody ever does that in real life. I fell into the ‘hook’ briefly but it’s just annoying now.

Unfortunately I don’t do this full time – but am trying to do more travel photography/content to hopefully be more full time. I know all that crap with getting the hook and making people read/watch is part of it. But I also don’t want to just fall into that and do what everyone else is doing.

When I travel, whether or not I’m posting it, I’ll be taking photos most of the time. So I that way it’s quite a lot of time. Edits I try and do all over a few days after a trip if possible while it’s still fresh. Then posting stuff I just maybe plan a couple days and write stuff for it when posting it. Probably not ideal but I think batch editing/writing… I’d just lose interest quicker.