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My Style

People need to realize that words are like tools, and how you use your tools will make your talent and ability more viable. A sculptor reveals what he saw in the marble and releases the hidden beauty within the stone. The use of tools makes this possible, but it is the vision that enables the image to become a reality. Tools for painting, brushes, pallet knives and other tools that have been used are only tools, but one needs to know how to use them effectively. In photography it is the same, one’s vision – interpreted with the camera, filters, and in working with the equipment of today including Photoshop or other programs.

A story to illustrate this point…

A wood chopper was chopping wood and a person came to speak with the wood chopper:

“Your axe must be why you can chop so well.”

“Yes,” said the man, “the head is the right weight and the handle is the right length so the balance is just right for me to chop wood with just one blow.”

“You are so lucky to have the right equipment,” said the other man.

“No,” said the wood chopper, “I chose the right tools and learned how to use them by practicing regularly; my ability to produce my style. The axe is not my style – I have the style and know how to use it well.”

We must all develop this uniqueness from within. It can’t be taught; instead it needs to be practiced with the heart – from within is what makes us all different and unique. In one of my classes I said even the great Orville Ottenbreit can’t produce a Klaus Bohn original.

Passion + Vision = Results

If we only have passion it will take us only so far – as long as the passion lasts.

Vision without passion fizzles in time because there is nothing to drive the vision.

Passion with vision has a lasting effect on the person possessing just that – the drive to continue until it brings the results.