StanleyYork Photography life is inspiration

It's Infectious

It’s Infectious

Forget the fact that I borrowed a friend’s Canon 7D (a joy in itself), the warm sunlight hitting Martha and her friends faces as they smiled reminded me of what I’ve been missing the past few months. All it takes is one click of the shutter for me to fall right back into the loving [...]

that moment

that moment

it’s that moment. the moment right before you press that anxious but always steady index finger so gently down to hear that click and pursuing flash of a shutter speed. where it seems like that little moment in life will be captured for eternity. not just on film, but in your mind and in your [...]

Leaders Don't Create Change

Leaders Don’t Create Change

If there’s one idea that keeps circling back to me through my various activities over the past year, it’s that the key to success for any growth or change from the status-quo is not only bottom-up, but bottom-up with the structure coming from the top. Let me elaborate using three examples: work, Obama and America. [...]

beauty

beauty

I’d like to think my photography captures and celebrates the small things in life that no one else seems to notice. A lot of people react negatively to some of my photographs, largely out of not realizing their own beauty. I guess they don’t see it. I do. Hence my fascination and infatuation.

change

change

a lot of people are afraid of change. they hate it. they hide from it. and they run from it. but i’m becoming more and more convinced that it’s one of life’s best things. change will never force the good out of your life. it simply forces you to recreate the parts of you that [...]