Ustye-Kubenskoye. Boat festival. Part 3

Throughout the life that I photograph, I have gone through many stages of formation. The most interesting, and at the same time strange - at first I am real, I photograph what steals attention without knowing the rules, then I have a teacher who puts me in a frames, and then I become free again, but with a lot of experience .

Now I will try to think about this topic.

As soon as I picked up a camera, I, like a child, have not yet been spoiled by any rules and regulations.

I can live (create) according to my soul, according to my feelings, and I don’t care about someone else’s opinion. Because I don't even know how to do it right.

Then they explain the rules to me and the frames immediately appear, that is, those plots that are now coming out of these frames are cut off.

And then, when courage and experience are already gaining, when you get bored of shooting according to the rules, a rebellion begins.

And then there is a second childhood in creativity.

...And then the second teacher appears and returns to reality again.

These are all certain cycles in creativity.

Now I'm at a stage where I can do whatever I want without any rules.

And the next mentor may not come.

Maybe I'm already at such a level that it's time for me to instruct everybody?

It is difficult to judge oneself, even if a certain level of development is enough for this.

If your ideas are stolen or repeated after you, then this is not bad.

But if you are not able to create something that will be stolen from you or repeated after you, then this is not very good.

Sometimes you can repeat after someone, but so that it does not violate copyright and is reformatted.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat after someone - after all, this is part of the collective mind and the plan for the development of the entire society.

I also repeated after someone. But when you create according to your soul and feelings, then you can’t physically repeat it. Here only you are pure water.