Lifestyle Choice

January 31, 2007

This photo has been sitting in my queue for a while, as I wondered what words would go best with it here.

Then I had lunch today with some of my fellow news photographers, and we talked about our profession and the many adventures and mishaps we’ve been through over the years. It was a great time, a needed refreshment to a job that while obviously so amazing but also often draining.

My colleague at the Tribune, Danny Chan La, said something that just stuck in my head and I knew I had to remember it. He was talking about different career choices and how he never wanted a job where he had to sit at a desk all day.

“You know,” he said. “What we do isn’t a job. It’s a lifestyle.”

So that’s the quote I’m associating with this photograph of a KFC lunch I had in my car on a busy day last week. Sometimes the life of a photojournalist is a thrilling adventure, and sometimes you’re alone in your car eating crap.

Lifestyle Choice

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