The Lonley Lion

Do you ever wish that some one would just call you up out of the random and ask you how you are doing?

Do you ever wish that some one would call you up to invite you to go do something with them?

Do you ever sit at home and wonder what amazing things someone else is doing with their life and why you are just sitting there doing nothing?

I find that personally I think these things every now and then and sometimes I can get trapped in the idea that no one cares who I am any more. Then I think to myself (after I'm done with my perfunctory pity-party): " You know, I bet that someone else feels the same way."

So I get over myself and do for someone else what I was hoping someone would do for me.  I've come to realize as time has come and gone that whenever I'm hoping for someone to reach out to me and remember that I exist there is always someone else that is hoping the exact same thing. The nice thing that I've come to notice is how ever I feel is usually how others feel too. So I can simply apply, rinse and repeat. If I'm hungry someone else is too. If I'm cold someone else is too. If I'm in need of a friend someone else is too.

Just like Jack Johnson says in his song The Sharing Song "It's always more fun to share with everyone." So go out of your way to share but don't just share your extra cookie but share your time, friendship and love.

The Life of  Fire

Writing in the Fire

 

 

Can You See Me?

A quick update

A quick update. Sales... enough said.I was contract to do my first engagement photo-shoot. I learned a lot about the whole process. Next time I am definitely going to have specific places and posses in mind before I go shot.

 

The Yawning Lion Wax Seal Promotion!

I've finally finished carving the yawning lion wax seal, so I'm doing a special promotion! Any one that donates any amount will get a hand written note from me with a seal on the letter from me! Or if you just want to write me a letter I will write you back sealed and signed!

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To just write me you can send me a letter to:
Taylor Phillips
10 Perimeter Park Dr. APT 364
Atlanta, GA 30341

Atlanta's Heat

The heat and the long hours are starting to get to me a bit. I am also about to go crazy not having my own car and not being able to go do what I want to do. I think that by my next paycheck I'll get a car.

 

 

Lost Photos

 During my travels in Taiwan I tried to shoot only in RAW for a moment only to discover that the current soft ware that I had didn't process RAW image format. So for months these photos have collected dust in the vast database of my hard-drive. I hope you enjoy these as much as I have.

GaoMei Wet Lands

Neon fishing net buried in the sand after a wet season

Texture of the Sand

Dress shoes are my adventure shoes

Barnacles hitching a ride on a fishing post

Learning to fly

Taoist temple flag

Taoist Temple Carving

Prayer sticks - You pay money to write your prayer on the stick.

Down Town Blue Lights

I finally got to go down town and shoot some of the people of the city. With-in 10 minutes of being in down town I was offered "good weed" by a guy that got obnoxiously close to me before he whispered his offer. It shocked me so much that he had to repeat himself 3 times before the reality of what he was offering to me kicked in. Later I was also offered pirated HD copies of every movie that was in theaters currently at this hole in the wall pizza restaurant that was AMAZING! (the food)  I started to make the connection that if you wanted anything of the shady nature you could get it in Atlanta and no one would even blink twice ( I am not in Utah any more).

I also recently acquired a new set of light reflectors that I am really excited to have. As we were walking around the city we found a pool that was full of blue lights, so I whipped out the reflector and went to town. 

In thought of mothers day. I've been thinking about this a lot of late and that is anything that I still consider useful knowledge I ultimately learned from my Mother. How to keep a clean house, build a basement, install tile, build a deck, tie my shoes, press a shirt, cook food, fold sheets with kissy sound effects, to be a man, to never give up, to create new ideas, and the list goes on. I owe all of this to my Mother.

 

 

 Thank you Mom!