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EyeforLife Kuwait 2012
EyeforLife 2012 this month is an all new course with some exciting material. The main theme is 2012 and how you improve what you currently do with clear targets as well as instruction on how to improve your skills. Just as important is how you improve your life too and the work we do will help you plan your coming years….
Imagine freeing up your mind of all the garbage you have accumulated and stops you moving forward. Starting with a blank sheet a bit like a child. Suddenly your creativity will just explode. We will look at ways to develop this, ways to look forward and not back. Ways to improve everything you do to have a positive effect in the future.
I am also introducing GoPro into the mix for the first time too. See first hand how I have put together an exciting new project and how it can inspire you with your new projects.
Go here to book or more information. www.eyeforlife.net/booknow
Stand out in your life....
World Flight Ban…..: Old post republsi
World Flight Ban…..: Old post republsihed. http://wp.me/pvysu-gw
World Flight Ban…..
I got back from Morocco in the nick of time, or so I was told. In fact it never even entered my head.
The recent flight ban due to volcanic ash stopped flights all over Europe. In theory this could happen worldwide one day if a few volcanoes decide to erupt simultaneously. I thought about it a bit when I tried to book the Eurotunel for my trip home but found no change, no hassle and just a little more traffic at the terminal but on the roads there was far less. Obviously passing Gatwick I would expect to see heavy traffic even early in the morning but there was none.
A few days later I thought more and more about the lack of flights. The so called problems it had caused. But all I had from friends and colleagues were exciting stories. One had taken days to get back from Oslo. Another an eternity from Japan! Someone had spent thousands on a taxi from Germany but all stories were happy ones. They could not wait to share their stories. Stories of real journeys or expeditions. The type of journeys we miss because we fly. Then I thought about why we fly? For me, door to door Woking to Pairs is half an hour longer by car. I don’t have to check in. I don’t have to sit next to someone that smells or that has awful breath. I can listen to my music and make my calls in peace. I also do not have to take my bloody shoes, belt and braces off each time I go through customs. Admittedly for long haul I might choose to fly but then I started thinking about that too.
Holidays would be s much more pleasurable. Would it really hinder me to not be able to fly on holiday? I could still go all over Europe, to the Stans in Asia, in fact many places that I have never been before. The Caribbean might be a bit tough but so what? I have only been once and am not hankering to return…. I thought about possible journeys to Morocco. A few days driving, camping and nice hotel on the way in Spain. We would see and experience so much more. Then we would have the freedom of our car in Morocco. When it was time to come home it would just be part of the journey and we would continue to expeirence the land we covered and people we meet. So much more enriching than airports and crap food and the depression of returning home.
I suppose business was affected hence the histeria in the news. Commerce which our world relies on so heavily was damaged. But then, was it really? Would it be without flying? I am not so sure. We would adapt, our farming practices would become more healthy, we would go back to eating seasonal fruits and probably suffer less from Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Market stalls would flourish and supermarkets would vanish….. Corner shops would pop up. There would be fewer conglomerates and more local wealth. Travel would be exciting and more enriching. Our lives would overall be healthier and probably morally stronger too. We could still travel. Humans have travelled successfully for centuries without flying. And in fact most humans don’t travel much but stay put and perhaps go on one or two holidays a year.
So! Would I miss flights? Not in the slightest. It would for me make the world a more exciting place. And most definitely a more healthy one. Other forms of transport would flourish and travel would continue. Our creativity would return in our efforts to explore and invent clean transport. Travel if we really wanted to. And those who didn’t would not have the dilemma of weather to spend thousands on a sunny holiday in a dirty resort or go explore the lakes, coastline or cities close to home……
Flying did allow me to get the above shots though! Got to work now………
Large Format Wall Prints
Well, I have finally put together a gallery of images that would look good on your living room, bedroom or office wall… All the prints are available at any size and normally will arrive unframed so you can custom buy to suite your home. The two galleries I have begun with are a general and one specifically of Paris. Email me to get a price.
Go here to view - http://www.junglemoon.co.uk/parisprints/
And here – http://www.junglemoon.co.uk/printgallery/
Select and send me the form email with any questions or orders….
EyeforLife 2012 – Kuwait
We have a new EyeforLife coming up in January from 19th to 21st… Contact me for details or go to www.eyeforlife.net and book now
New course, new material and all very exciting.
2012
So here is a my Happy New Year to anyone who reads my blog… I have not posted enough recently so again vow to start the year well, get bogged down with lots of good work, struggle to blog as often as I should BUT this year I will make a change.. I will keep up the blogs throughout the year and hopefully renew the current blog look.
I also have an exciting year ahead with a number of projects already started.
The first is the Yukon Quest in February. Myself and a small team have been awarded the media/photography contract which has been on my wish list for some time. Well now we have it and now we have to perform…
I also have a Kuwait trip coming up in January with a new EyeforLife workshop, new material and very exciting too…
The rest I will inform you about gradually over the coming weeks… Please comment and keep in touch in your way too and connect to this blog by subscribing to keep up to date…
Happy New Year
Mark
Back in a studio……
It was great to be back in a studio yesterday even if only for 15 mins with a crazy bunch! A few Christmas shoots coming, I think….
Eye For Life
Well, I have just completed another EyeforLife and it was a great pleasure to meet so many new photographers… Also the workshop at the Kuwait Journalist Association was brilliant too.
View the images on Facebook and checkout our new vid with some info on me! http://eyeforlife.net/markgillett/
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“You taught me to find things others could not see”
This is a quote from a student I recently wrote to complimenting his photography. I did not send him the email looking for this reply, I sent it because I noticed. I noticed how good this young man was becoming as a photographer. I wrote it because I thought he should know. Read the rest of this entry »
Performance – Talent vs Practice
My daughter started surfing this holiday. She completed her first 15 hours of practice and the improvement was huge.
Working with people as I have for 30 year, I have learnt to recognise many factors in the way people perform. I have had arguments with parents about their children when they believe that their talent will get them through, I have seen some highly skilled individuals rely on their attributes and receive praise only to end up failing and not understanding why. And I have seen child prodigies who, by the time they reach 18, are no different from their peers.
I have, however, Read the rest of this entry »
What is EyeforLife
Open your eyes to the world around you... Join us on EyeforLife.
EyeforLife is a a name that Yousef Al Qanai (or was it me?) came up with in Kuwait. We had already run a series of unique workshops where I take a coaching role as well as a photography instructor primarily because of my background in performance coaching. Read the rest of this entry »
Workshops
Eye for Life workshop registration is well under way… Our season starts in October when I will be in Kuwait with AYMSTRONG. The two key workshops are Eye for Life and the Next Right Answer. The latter being for those who wish to embark on a programme of study with coaching over 8 months. This is an exciting new development for us and one that will keep your interest throughout the year with workshops, assignments, critique and group meetings.
We also offer the one day workshops which can be found on the same link on the right of the page so please drop by EyeforLife and see what we do.
In short, we “do” our dreams and work with you in “doing” yours.
Favourite phone……?
Just thought I would try to create a huge thread somewhere…. Facebook or here on the blog. Whats your favourite phone, old or new? For me it has to be the 6210i.. Post!
EyeforLife
Learn to look at your world from a different perspective. Take an EyeforLife course.
Exciting times ahead with EyeForLife…. We have our new courses starting in October. Checkout the website http://eyeforlife.net/ for all the latest info. In late November we will run a trip to South Africa on safari, this is not to be missed. All details are on the site too, or just email me or Yousef.
We will also take online participants if getting to a course is not possible.. Obviously the Safari is not possible online, well, not yet anyway.
Back to breakfast now!
Freedom!
I just dug out one of my old phones, a Nokia 6210i, and wow! What freedom. Freedom from the clutches Read the rest of this entry »
Words…. Just inspired by Yousef. http:
Words…. Just inspired by Yousef. http://wp.me/pvysu-pu
Eye for Life
The Eye for Life website has now launched and will grow over the coming months… We need your input with comments and suggestions. We need your creativity.
What is Eye for Life about? Exactly that. We are about people and creativity; How you view the world, your life, life in general… How you image the world and how your world can improve though photography or creativity.
Our core structure is workshops but due to the very nature of life, we do not now how it will evolve, only that it will and that it will be a creative process. One that we teach in our workshops and courses.
Eye for Life is about not letting life go by without taking part. About not missing it in a sea of anger or depression but seeing the beautiful in the world. Capturing it and creating great things.
Our workshops are for photographers to improve or begin, Corporations working with teams and team leaders to be more creative in their approach or individuals in private one to one sessions.
Take a read of the website, it wont take more than 5 minutes to skip through….Being creative is not about pages of text, its about doing…. Register with us if you are interested and follow us to keep updated of our programmes or become involved.
I will be in Kuwait at the end of June for more workshops and online activities will start shortly after that… We have lots planned. Please get in touch…
Time for Change… Not just in the Middle East
The Arab Spring, The Arab Uprising, The Middle East Revolts are all too common titles right now…. But the more I read, the more I see that its not just in the Middle East. Its in Spain, England, France, even in cities in the US. and if real change is to happen it has to be in the “old powers” as well as the new emerging nations of the world.
Democracy has been spread fiercely since the end of WW2. With USA, UK and France pushing forward with the spread of Western power at the end of the British Empire, the world has taken on a new look of globalism, commerce and banking. But these very foundations are too weak to survive as human beings need more than commercial goods and money. On the face of it, yes money and power are very appealing but the emptiness, lack of soul that this alone brings is now evident across the Western world; Broken societies, morally corrupt as well as financially corrupt institutions, and family breakdowns and divorce at an all time high do not make for happy societies. We cant even walk our streets safely in our free world – read http://wp.me/pvysu-sN Read the rest of this entry »
