{"id":13906,"date":"2014-05-22T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpaulcaponigro.com\/workshops\/alumni\/?p=331"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:18:07","slug":"alumni-michael-quinn-on-being-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/13906\/alumni-michael-quinn-on-being-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Michael Quinn On Being Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRecently I got \u201cDiscovered\u201d. I awoke one morning to 3 emails all from strangers. The Huffington Post, UK SWNS and the UK Hot Spot Media. They were all wanting the work that I had published on the Adobe Behance website called \u201cGreenland Reflections\u201d. I had published several images from my trip to Greenland in 2012 as I was preparing for my return trip in 2013. I wanted to see what was working and what was missing so that I could more fully flush out a body of work. Well a blogger found me and posted my work on My Modern Met that got noticed.<br \/>\nThis would not have happened if not for two key events. Since I began this journey in 2010 I have been working extremely hard on my vision and my mechanics. John Paul has been there on so many occasions to feed my imagination. To coach me and then to set me on my own path. There has been a lot of help freely given by the Next Step group over the years. In person, from the website and over emails. The group is so diverse in their own visions and mechanics that it allowed me to dream. To dream bigger than I ever thought I could.<br \/>\nThe second event is sharing. You have to share your work to some degree to get noticed. I\u2019m using Behance, Google+, Facebook and more recently Dropr. I generally only post images on Google+ and then post a link to that on my Facebook feed. You need to put your work out there for people to find. There is of course the downside to sharing as well. But you have to just take the risk and get yourself out there.<br \/>\nI have been trying to write something to accompany the images that I post. It generally has to have a theme that the image pairs well with. I think that sharing your thoughts along with your vision makes the work somehow more personal, more intimate, more intriguing. I think that it allows the audience to connect with me on some level.\u2028In summary &#8211; Dream big, really Big. Then work hard to get there. Then allow your work to be seen. Allow yourself to be known.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michael-j-quinn.com\">Learn more about Michael and see more of his work here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I got \u201cDiscovered\u201d. I awoke one morning to 3 emails all from strangers. The Huffington Post, UK SWNS and the UK Hot Spot Media. 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