Recently I read the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland. This book was amazing and I believe every artist should read it. My favorite line of the book is, “If, indeed, for any given time only a certain sort of work resonates with life, then that is the work you need to be doing in that moment” (Ch. 4 Pg. 7). At this time in my life, where graduation is so near, I have realized the only work I seem to enjoy and truly get pleasure from shooting are concerts and sporting events. I love looking at this type of work and I tremendously love doing it. It is the only work that I can truly appreciate and when I am the one taking the photographs I feel as if I am in a dream and someone needs to pinch me. I can always spot good work when I see it and I can appreciate a good still life or portrait or anything for that matter, but none of it affects me like a great sports moment or concert photograph. I shot a concert a few weeks ago and it almost put me in tears. Tears of joy of course, but I felt this way about it because it was unreal to me. To be able to shoot some of my favorite bands in a well-known venue was amazing. To know I got great photographs was even better, but the moment I was noticed and given an amazing photograph was what over joyed me. The moment the lead singer of the main band pointed down at my camera and looked directly at me was the perfect moment. The moment every photographer there was waiting for and the moment I got. No one else got the photograph from it that I did and during this moment I truly realized how much I enjoyed concert photography. How much I love the great moments that happen during concerts and sporting events. The moments that I can relate to due to my sports background and immense love for music. This is why I love taking photographs at games and concerts. This is the field of photography that I want to be in and the statement from the book resonated this within my mind. It made me think about how much I love photographing these moments and how this is the only photography I can do at the moment and truly enjoy.