Looking for any females interested in modeling for me while I am in LA between August 30th and September 3rd. Consider this a free intime session. No experience necessary, just need to be motivated and adventurous. Serious inquiries email me at “yangphotography” at Gmail.

I recently bought an iPad specifically for the photo gallery which allows me to showcase my work to clients instead of using my iPhone. My first potential wedding client whom I met by chance while visiting a friend, looked through my gallery of destination weddings and decided to hire me for their Hawaii wedding. The iPad had instantly paid for itself! So here is the ad:

Wanted

Female assistant for one or both trips to Maui, Hawaii. Engagement session on October 30-31, flying in October 29 to November 1. Wedding celebration on December 30-January 1, flying in a few days before and after the event. Assistant required to carry two carry-on sized bags around while shooting. Escorting El Bob also required. Airfare and hotel costs are completely covered, must be comfortable sharing a room. The benefits include free vacation and possibly free photo shoot.

above photo credit unkown, from Google

This is a rare video that speaks directly to me, so I will share it with the rest of the world.

A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.

HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it.

We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You’re not supposed to talk much anyway so it’s safe there.

There’s also the gym. If you’re shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).

And there’s public transportation, because we all gotta go places.

And there’s prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you’re hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.

Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.

The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they — like you — will be alone.

Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.

When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You’re no less intriguing a person when you’re eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.

Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one’s watching…because, they’re probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you’re sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.

Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there’re always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might’ve never happened had you not been there by yourself

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one’s in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.

Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school’s groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you’re happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.

It’s okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can’t think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.

And it doesn’t mean you’re not connected, that communitie’s not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn’t get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don’t obsess about it.

you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.

Ladies and Germs, I’ve been invited to teach a small, intimate workshop in Miami, so take this opportunity to learn the secrets of how I get the ladies to take off their clothes. I actually don’t profit from this, I only have my expenses paid so take this one and only chance!

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emergesymposium.com

Emerge Photography Symposium is geared towards photographers who advance best through small group, hands-on collaborative learning.

Emerge Photography Symposium differentiates itself and provides value by way of intimate interaction and a personalized experience. It’s segmented into three parts:

1) Instruction Lecture / Discussion (Instructors: Brian Smith, Tony Yang and Norman Chow)
2) Intensive Hands-on Photo shoot Workshops in a rotational setting
3) One-on-one and group critque / consultation sessions

Let me repeat: There will be no large conference room or lecture hall. Brian Smith, Tony Yang and Norman Chow certainly will not have microphones. It’s personal. It’s about you, me, your future new friends, a wealth of knowledge, and an awesome weekend in Miami, FL. How many people, you ask? We’re capping the group at 50 individuals. Again, this is not a giant conference.

Come with your brain ready to soak, a prepared trigger index finger and a laptop to show off your new skills.

Early-bird registration will close Friday, August, 6, 2010. Hurry!

I am finally selling prints! You can now have a limited edition of a Tony Yang work hanging in your own place. If you have suggestions on anything else I can offer, feel free to drop a note. Prints will not have my name across the image.

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