It’s always a pleasure to view your videos, not simply because of the photography content but for the philosophical and visual beauty of the cinematic and music - always coming together as a finely orchestrated gift. Thank you for continuing your Zen-like productions and forward vision. Keep up the great work.
I honestly don't know how you deliver such sentiment with such profound wisdom and yet show such vulnerability, you are a phenomenal human being Sean. Can't wait to see what projects you create once your chrysalis breaks to reveal your new self.
My first wife left very suddenly, it took me 12 years to trust someone enough to let them close, very long story short, wife number 2 is the loveliest lady you could ever hope to meet, 18 years together and still holding hands and cuddling on the sofa at every opportunity 😃
I got to say. I don’t come here for photography tips. I come here to be encouraged, and strengthened; determined to push through whatever I may be going through each day and continue to do what I love. I existential depression is no joke and I know that Picking up my camera will help me 1000%. I watch these videos to feel better about not wanting to pick my camera up
Don't know you man but I personally know the state of being when facing seemingly unanswerable existential questions. And I know this one thing, life is worth living because if the good news of Jesus is true one thing it means is that Creator has not abandoned us and he's not abandoned you. Wish you all the motivation you need to capture the gift of life with your camera
@@kristogirma8319 No offense man, i know you mean well... but i wish religious people would stop instantly bringing their god into practically everything. You don't see agnostics and atheists including their views on god and religion in every possible occasion...
@@DobromirManchev I use to feel the way you do...but then I had to ask myself...why am I so put out when someone who believes is just sharing a positive message about it? What am I afraid of when someone mentions Jesus Christ, God or religion etc? I now try to follow this rule...I respect anyone trying to bring a positive message into the world, even if it doesn't perfectly align with my belief system. We're all just trying to find our way in this f'd up world and if Jesus Christ is what Kristo needs to be better and be a good person...I'm OK with that. Be well! Benjamin
@@DobromirManchev why? Why do atheists bring it up? The metaphysical question of theism? As one myself sometimes just accept that the religious believe and i probably cant change that. As a humanist and pluralist i accept that often this is the way a person expresses support and warmth, essentially more important/valuable things in life than asking "does god exist" So why be surprised that God is used to express something? Most the world is religious. The unfalsifiable question of existence is getting boring, and often isnt really the point in whats saidm
I don’t know how, but you always seem to be sending the exact message I need to hear most precisely when I need to hear it! Wishing you nothing but the best and thanking you from the bottom my heart for so graciously sharing of yourself & your experience with others.
Your sharing of yourself, personally, is just a bonus to the talent and skill you bring. Some of my worst times in life turned out to be the best times, in retrospect. Thank you for the insight.
Lost a relationship , had a professional crisis afterwards, ended up living at my parent's again... But all that just retired all I was doing wrong, and forced me to think for the first time the big questions. Please know that not only you will be grateful for this rough patch, your life will be greater, and you'll live a happier life from all the learnings and growth from all this. This makes me remember your "embrace your shadows" video. I will go look at it again. "Anger is just a sign of fear" ... Great line!
Being stuck in a liminal space now, I feel like this was just the right nudge to grow my self out of it and not look back at it in anger. Thank you Sean.
I admire how you're able to open up about the difficult stuff, takes a lot of courage and you communicate it so beautifully, I want my non photographer friends to watch this
I only discovered your channel recently but I'm so glad I did! I am an amatuer photographer, but your talks on philosophy and dealing with life's challenges have spoken to me on another level. Thank you for sharing these things in this way, and know that your videos have been helping me with a challenging period of my life and, I'm sure, many others would say the same.
yeah, same here. sold my archery business and wanted to move to Austria, but due to the situation, I still stuck here in Malta. Living out of my boxes too. But I simply accept what is, do what I do, knowing things happen for a reason. I keep an open mind and heart and simply go on
Sean, the bad ending is a sign of a new beginning is so true. I had something similar happen to me years ago, she left , not until 3 years later I found out it was the absolute best thing that could ever happen to me. All I can say is it will improve, trust in your words ! Fellow RU-vidr !
A friend of mine closely follows your work and sent this video to me. It was exactly what I needed at a point in my life where I felt like so much came to an end so suddenly. To think about this period of time like this and to take advantage of it has been a nice shift in mindset. I'm a firm believer of things happen for you and not to you, as difficult as it is to go through it. Thank you for your vulnerability and transparency.
Just two things that crossed my mind when I watched your video (as indeed most of your videos): First, if your former employer, the Church, had the slightest inkling of how touching and convincing a speaker (they call it preacher, I guess) they have lost, they should be genuinely shocked. But then again, arguably, they don't deserve talent like you. Second, how can someone so much younger than me be so much wiser and more eloquent about life (and photography, which I've dabbled with for 37 years), which makes watching your videos almost a humbling experience. But, you know what, at the same time it's also uplifting and helps to restore one's faith in and appreciation of people and the power and beauty of the human spirit.
Your water analogy resonated deeply w/me, with my “submergence/thinking I’m almost to the surface/realization there’s more water” happening pretty much consistently over a 20yr span. (Sounds hyperbolic, but I only wish that was true.) Anyway, thank you for giving me another way to visualize it. I’m going to look into the authors of the quotes from this video and go back & rewatch the video from January for more. Thank you for sharing.
Sean, difficult to express how much I enjoy your channel. I learn a lot from it. The honesty and openness is always profound and humbling. The photography’s quite good too. Thanks.
Appreciate you sharing this. My situation may not be as disorienting as yours, but I've been stuck in the middle of moving countries for over a year because of covid. Nearly everything I own, including my house, is in the US while I'm stuck in NZ (no generally available vaccine here yet), living between a small boat moored in a bay and staying with family, unable to return to the US to sell up/pack up my old life and move back to NZ permanently.
Thank you for your beautiful sermons x. When you were a pastor I bet you never imagined your talks would have such an expansive and supportive audience :). There must have been a profound and troubling liminal space between then and now as well. Sometimes I wonder if the whole of human life is liminal, the place of possibility between birth and death. Have you read the poem 'Kneeling' by R S Thomas? "...The meaning is in the waiting".
Sean, my favorite thing about your channel is that it feels like meditation. I can trust that if I am stuck I can come here and find a starting point for self reflection. Thank you.
The opening videos are amazing. Framed like photographs, beginning in stillness, coming to life. Mysterious. Magical. ... Embracing the liminal. Every moment in our lives holds the seeds of new beginnings. Every moment is also the falling apart of what was. How I cling to the known, shy away from the unknown... Except... except when I am as fully in the present moment as I can be, when time stops, when the mind shifts into a mode of curiosity and wonder. The stories matter less. The heart break shifts to a tenderness of emotion, beyond the story line - being human - alive, breathing, seeing, feeling. A place where art happens. ... Thank you for taking me there with you.
It's Friday But Sunday's Comin! Most of the Biblical stories you taught were about living in the valley. Just like the Israelites in the wilderness and the followers of Jesus after the cross before that Sunday.
Good point about liminal space Sean. I'm 62 now and can clearly see how every time of great difficulty and unwanted change in my life has led me to somewhere very positive that I would never have arrived otherwise and, looking back, I'm happy that they happened. We have many potential lives and they'll all include both great and good things. Changes and challenges are opportunities for adventure, learning and growth. Best wishes for this new stage of your life and respect for creating this excellent channel (and I'm not here for the photography aspect).
Just had a similar experience also in April. I received no alarming phone call on the M1 and can appreciate how that must have felt. I swung left onto the M6 and am now in walking distance of “another place”. Anthony Gormley placed his hundred iron men here,due to the light, from a shortlist of spots along the Atlantic coast of Europe. It’s “where the light gets in”. You could find that light on one of your long drives. Get onto to A59 west and keep going until you arrive. ND filters useful. Good luck with the new start.
Glad to see you are taking a healthy approach to your current situation. As to the housing issue, for various reasons I shipped all my stuff from San Francisco to my new apartment in New York 3 months before actually moving. It was a good opportunity to realize how little stuff I actually needed to function and potentially be happy.
I came to your channel because of photography and now I´m here because of you, Sean. Because od your wisdom, humanity and beauty. Thank you for your openness. And now, at the beginning of a new chapter in your life, I wish you a beautiful summer filled with inspiration, poetry and the magic of life.
Forever grateful for your honesty and vulnerability. By sharing your experiences you help and encourage your audience more than we could explain. Thank you 🙏
I've watched thousands of youtube videos and never commented on a single one. But I'll have to change that with this one. Thank you so much for this! You have an ability to articulate some heavy stuff while remaining relatable. I appreciate you, and I wish you the best!
Thank you for sharing your experience Sean. It is very relevant to photography . I think a lot about why I am making photographs and how what is going on for me impacts this. I have not heard of ‘Luminal space’ before. It has give me something to reflect on. Good luck on the final move.
Sean, there should be no need for you to explain away the fact that some of your videos won't be about photography tips. A lot of us - me included - don't mind your life and philosophy style videos. Keep being yourself. Cheers from Australia.
You have a voice much bigger than just photography. Basically anything put out on this RU-vid channel, I'm along for the ride. This was such an enheartening video. The oxygen metaphor was waaaaaaaaayy too relatable.
Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts. Your message came on the right time for. I have been living on liminal space for years. I used to work as photographer onboard of cruise ships and when I decided to move to land last year in February of 2020 and the world stopped. Take care and stay safe. The only thing left is to keep the positive way and moving forward.
Thank you Sean for the person you are, creative, philosophical, great knowledge and loads of honest purity. I enjoy your great video’s, whether instructive and informative on photographic details or personal like this one. Given the responses by so many people, you inspire people!
Feelings that come along with fear can be re-cast as feelings of excitement. Being stuck inbetween can be-cast as being free. You are at a great time in your life, a time when you are free to explore new projects, places and relationships. Embrace it. (OK, almost always easier said than done, but worth saying.)
Sean, I am so sorry to hear this all happening which is so hard I feel what you are going through as I have been dealing with something similar during the lockdown. This past week I was watching a show on Gloria Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper from CNN and they were talking about his Dad and something he always told to tell people. He was always moving and busy and he always said I am a Shark, I have to keep moving forward because if I stop I'll be dead. A Shark must always be moving they can not stop or go backward because moving forward keeps water moving over their gills to supply oxygen and if the Shark stops they will die. How true this is and now something I am trying to learn to do to get out of my life and photography funk. It has been only a few days but I have to say I have done more in a few days than what I have done in months. I'm going to keep moving and hoping it continues to help me, and this is me not telling you to do this it is only a bit into my life and what you do is what you have to do for you, my friend. I hope all things turn for the good and start looking good as we have had enough bad for too long now. Matthew from Canada. The worse place on earth for covid 19 in Alberta Canada per capita.
Apart from being inspirational, informative and fun to watch. Your videos have the best music! I love these ambient tunes in every video you make. Thank you.
Oh man Sean, I am exactly in this situation right now, not knowing how to describe it or realizing that my feeling of unease comes from exactly what you describe. Thank you so much for this video and sharing your personal thoughts and feelings with us. This definitely helped me. I wish you all the best for crossing your threshold into a new life.
I have to add to my previous comment.........If you were still a preacher, I would come to your church. Sermons are meant to make you think, to lift you up and challenge you to improve. You do that for me.
Life has thrown you so many curve balls and your outlook and strength is inspirational. Having been through a separation and loosing a home and much more than I want to share here. It’s the escapism of photography and the constant learning from it that has got my through so much. Being on my own in nature with a camera and my thoughts, and looking at life through a lens has helped me keep focused (pun intended) Thank you Sean for you great videos and advice not just on photography. I look forward to all your videos.
Liminal space is also a chance to reflect on which things really matter and which is just clutter in our lives. We just lost our house as a consequence of lockdown. All of our things is in storage and the process of packing have been both sad and liberating. We leave our home for 13 years on Tuesday with no where to go but the safety of our country. But we find ourselves making plans for the future that are different than the ones we were stuck in. So even though we hit bottom maybe something good will come from it. Until then we live in Liminal Space for better or worse.
Sean, thank you for sharing. As I was listening to you talking I reflected on my time in liminal space. I got so comfortable in there that it became hard for me to actually take the next step and move on. I don’t know if I was comfortable or maybe I just lost hope for things to change. But at some point I realized that if I spent too long in that liminal space I might find unintentionally that it became my “destination” rather than just being a transient phase. I hope you’ll get to the other side of things just at the right time, emerging just as you hope to. Take care.
I've not heard the term Liminal Space but sure can relate to it. Thanks for sharing Sean and i'm sure you will look back on these challenging days in a positive way some day.
We were in York just before the shut down so it is nice to see how the river normally flows. I love these videos that discuss life. We all have motivations for how, when and where we do things. Sometimes traumatic events push us to new adventures and others encourage us to stay put and become stronger. Thanks for this video. You have two feet, Sean, they are meant to land on. I am glad that you are finding yours. York is beautiful.
Great video. All of yours are great. I'm sharing this to my Facebook pages. I can sympathize with mobile goal posts, and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel only to find out that it's an on-coming train. Like the words of the song, "He's an old hip;pie and he don't know what to do. Should he hold on to the old, or grab on to the new". I had changes forced on me I didn't want, but which turned out to be the best option in the long run.
It can take a while to get back to the surface, but when you do, the air may not be sweeter, but different and you learn to breathe a different way. The roadblocks don’t stop you for long and you’ll learn to see them in a different way. Be patient and you will settle into the next stage of your life. I know, as I’ve experienced a similar situation. Stay strong and don’t rush things
I really like your videos. Your way of taking photos and your imagery inspire me and encourage me to take photos differently than before. your videos about you personally and what moves you are great. I thank you for your content that you give us. best regards. Matti. From Hamburg, Germany.
I can get photography tips anytime, three this of five that, but I cannot get content that touches me on a level or in a way that your vulnerability and insightfulness does. Best regards as, hopefully, your new chapter begins.
I think I have told you this in past and I would probably want to repeat it. Most often I feel that your videos and the quotes in your videos resonate with what is happening in my mind at this very moment when am reading this. Sometimes it's the quotes ( like the one in Lao Tsu in today's video ) or sometimes it's the video in itself which takes me into a chain of thoughts. For someone who is on a break from photography and wanting to come back and the whole situation the world is going through making it diff to get out of this Liminal space is kind of killing the resilience within in me. I am pretty sure we will get through this phase.
Always a pleasure watching your videos and listening to your advice and opinions. As an introvert myself I often stuck inside my own mind and afraid to let go of control. Would love to know what is on your reading list, you always seems to have the best quotes and references on your videos. Have already pre-ordered your book and cannot wait to read it.
I think you have been for a long while my favorite channel on this platform. I have learned so much from you, and no, not only about photography. Thanks a lot.
Well the most beautiful flowers grow out in the wild, so we really need to hang in there, learn to appreciate the discomfort, and be sure we'll deeply develop in the process. I am grateful for this wholesome and personal content, it came to me at a perfect timing. Hope it all works out for you as well, we are together and getting stronger by the hour. Best!
Just wanted to comment that i too started watching your channel for photography but now i do find i enjoy your thoughts on ideas and processes even more. Sometimes we think our lives are destined for creation be it a family or our work we chose. But maybe its also in part our journey's in our lives' that is the real experience. As we may be so gifted to experience many aspects of life that if we take that path of change and the time to take things in and grow and develop that they may enrich ones life beyond any aspect of creation in other forms. And i did just pre order your book as i am curious to read it. Also planning to give it to my neighbor as they are going throughs some hard times with life changes and maybe this will help.
Come live in Lisbon! ... even if it sounds crazy. Make friends here! I moved from the USA to Lisbon a couple of years ago, and, as you know, Lisbon has a unique vibe and a ton of inspiring places. I can help you find a house that you can call your new home. Not kidding.
Thank you so much for sharing this, I was crying my eyes out the whole time. Both because I feel the sense of loss that you feel, and because I am definitely in liminal space at the moment in so many ways. This was so encouraging and needed. Thank you.
I had the great pleasure to meet and do a workshop with Mark Fearnley on Saturday … he said that you were truly a humble, honest and lovely fella. That really comes across in your Vlogs so much and I wish you well. Hopefully one day I can add into my journal ‘Today, I had the honour and pleasure to meet Sean Tucker …” Best wishes mate … I’m sure that corner is about to be turned … 😊
My Brother, once again you did it. To understand and honestly embrace that those unusual times of adversity and challenge can ultimately makes us better in certain ways requires maturity and humility. You drink deeply from the well of life. As one great teacher shared with one of His students, "when you are completed (i.e., triumphed over your personal challlenge) strengthen your brothers.” Be well my Brother and thanks for strengthen us. Peace.
What a beautiful opening montage. In particular that shot where it was pretty difficult to tell what was the reflection and what was the actual scull. Your explanation of what it means to be in liminal space with its challenges and satisfactions was a powerful share. When I look back on my own years of struggle they too are among the most satisfying ones of all. Well done.
Often it's about getting rid of baggage, which is mostly, oh man, could be anything -- but often ideas about how life is, or how we are (I'm like _this_ you're like _that_ ...)
Thanks Sean for sharing. It helps a lot. It gives us, who hear you, courage that we are not alone with our problems and insecurities and that these are moments when we can grow stronger and change in the hope for the better. I wish you the very best in your endeavors. And please keep sharing. Best regards.
I remember when you put that vid out earlier this year. I was in the same place but about 6 months up the road. I'm glad to see you're pushing through!
It is so necessary to listen this things sometimes , just get you closer to your fans , cause we realize that you are human as we are.....So important and deep.. Thank you for sharing !
I've learned to really cherish those transitional times. You can learn to become a lot more mindful on many levels. I really appreciate these videos. Thank you for sharing your vulnerability.
