The Adventures of Daniel Kwan

• Get a day job
• Do one illustration per month
• Reduce love handles

That’s good enough.

The more I learn about the business of photography, the less I want to be part of it. I’ve said I’m getting out of it before and ended up getting back into it, but now I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be my career. (If you’re interested in becoming a professional photographer, you’re at the wrong blog. Try these instead: A Photo Editor, Photo Business News, Photopreneur.)

First of all, I don’t like being a salesman, but professional photography (stock, commercial, wedding, doesn’t matter) is more of a sales job than anything else. That’s something I should have known from the very beginning. I have enough previous experience in sales to know that to be good at it, it has to be major part of your life, 24/7, and I’m not willing to make that kind of commitment (or sacrifice, actually). In fact I’m pretty much antisocial so selling myself really goes against my nature.

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Merry Christmas!

I haven’t been to a DQ in the US in a long time, but I don’t remember them serving hot dogs. And check out their dining area! It’s a friggin’ lounge, but with Blizzards instead of booze.

I’m in Shanghai right now. I brought along two SLRs and a point-and-shoot but I’ve mostly been shooting with my iPhone. Go to my new site PhotogMoblog.com to see the pics.

Nothing new to report, except I’m flying to Shanghai on Monday. I’ll be back end of January. In the meantime I’ll still update this site from overseas, unless it gets blocked over there.

Updating this blog every other day is a little too much for me. I think I’m gonna reduce it to twice per week. My other blog, PhotogMoblog.com, will still be updated daily though, since I don’t have to write anything. It’s just random pictures. And for the rest of the month and January it’ll probably have lots of photos of Shanghai.

Oh yeah, anyone wanna hire me? I mean like for a job job. I’ve been freelancing for two years (maybe more, I forget) and it’s been fun, and I love many aspects of it, but quite frankly I’m not making enough. I’m not sure if a 9-to-5 job is what I want but I’m open to different options.

Look what nastiness I came across on this forum thread.

It needs a sequal.

Took some photos for Mtnghost.com back when the studio was empty. This car is Solomon Lee’s Lexus IS300. Slideshow.

I love the iPhone’s camera and WiFi capability. Those features are the main reasons I got the iPhone. I can now take a photo and publish it on the web immediately. (If you didn’t know, the iPhone’s camera is pretty nice.) This is going to come in very handy when I go to Shanghai later this month.

Like I told someone else, I feel like a little kid again with this camera (er… phone). I have another compact camera too but to share its photos, I’d have to plug it to the computer, download the photos, and then upload the photos. Too inconvenient and not worth the effort, so I never did it. But now it’s super easy.

I’ve created a photography moblog (or mobile photography blog, which I’d shorten and call a mofo blog if mofoblog.com wasn’t already taken) just for sharing photos from my iPhone. Take a look: PhotogMoblog.com. Barely any words. Just photos.

Is this what I think it is?

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