This is copied from the "Gothic Royalty" facebook group. I'm sure most of you can relate to this! Take it with a grain of salt. Author unknown, but I love them, whoever they are.
Ask the average zombie, "why?" and the answer will be something along the lines of "for fun." Thousands of people will spend hours preparing and then give over more hours to the walking/shambling for apparently "no reason" and the this absolutely baffles the uninvolved. But there is an underlying, deeper, unspoken reality to events like Zombie Walk.
There are so many genres of photography and these days everyone is a photographer. It is not an arcane craft requiring special knowledge and difficult to attain materials and equipment as it was a century ago. The challenge in an overcrowded field is differentiating oneself. The real work is not that one nice shot that holds someone's attention for a few minutes anymore, but creating a body of work that stands apart.
Here is the Vancouver segment of Space Channel's "Fanboy Confessional - Steampunk Edition." I can be seen playing croquet at 3:00 and I'm featured running my photo-booth at 4:34. Phoenix Black, "We have a photo booth in the back with a local photographer who is really very, very good."
