We recently connected with Juan Palomino and have shared our conversation below.

Juan, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

From the get-go, I had (still have) a passion for photography artwork; to the day, I mostly saw it as a side job because for me, it was simply a productive way to have fun. Therefore, I looked into it as a method of passive income.

When I was a college student, I took an artwork photography class where I learned what I felt were the basics such as understanding the components of a camera such as aperture, shutter speed, and ISO (a camera’s sensitivity to light). Moreover, I also took a forensics photography class; there, I understood some principles, such as creating diagrams of a room, utilizing equipment to gain a view of a detail that normally couldn’t be seen with the naked eye (i.e. fingerprints, blood, hair, splash patterns, etc.), and taking photographs from a far-angle, mid-angle, and a close-angle.

With that passion and knowledge, it felt like a piece of gold in my mind, something I wished I had sooner. Nevertheless, I don’t let that slow me down, and I believe it is something that comes with minimal obstacles.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

As long as I could remember, I found myself to be a very independent person; moreover, with lots of discipline, coming from a father who was an active military member, and me being a karate student for fifteen years.

The world that we live in today, I feel there is a sense of great danger and turmoil all around us every single day of our lives. At least I would like to think I feel I learned how to get comfortable with it as I’m seeing there does not appear to be an end in sight. Every single day at the end of the day, I’m grateful to be home.

With the thought of great danger and turmoil I feel veering in my mind, I turn to photography as a sense of experiencing peace. Today, some of my photography artwork are available for purchase in the form of canvases, t-shirt prints, and even phone cases. When I take my photos and apply it, I feel like I am sharing that peace because I feel that when others look at my work, they do not see any conflict but rather just simply photos of memorable buildings and nature.

Can you talk to us about how your side-hustle turned into something more.

My side hustle never became a full-time freelance business for me, nor do I see full-time as a necessity because I feel I would be stressing and seeing this work as a routine. If I had to face such obstacles, I feel I wouldn’t be publishing my golden works, making it feel very hard to see my works as opportunity.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

When I turn to photography as a sense of experiencing peace, I never really thought of it as a goal or a mission. Nevertheless, I see my work as something I am offering to the world. When looking back at my work several years in the future, can that same exact photo still be taken again in whichever soon-to-be present time? Things always change as the years go by.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://palominojuan.wixsite.com/worldofjuanpalomino/home
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jpsofficialphotography/
• Other: https://www.cafepress.com/jpsofficialphotography https://www.foap.com/user/jpalomino3849/market

Image Credits
Juan Palomino