How that photo found me
Recently, I posted a small article on TEDxAmsterdam, on how inspiring and motivating the event was. Today, more than a week later, I still feel the motivation and drive to implement the ideas which I had in my head for long time. Nothing big, just making or changing some small things in my immediate surroundings. As if the event, where everyone was encouraged to share their personal breaktrough with the others, was that small personal breaktrough for myself.
So this weekend, I was processing and printing some of the photographs I took recently. Printing was taking some time so as I was waiting for it to finish, I checked the content of the TEDx goodie bag. One of the items in the bag was a magazine called “Proud”. This magazine is published by amsterdam inbusiness, the official foreign investment agency of Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. As I was browsing through the magazine, I spotted this photograph:
There was nothing extraordinary about the photograph of the Paradiso club, other than the feeling I had. I somehow felt that I saw this photo before. And yes indeed, I not only saw the photo before, I actually took it.
It is funny when I think about it because TEDx inspired me to actually do something about my photographs so that some of them would perhaps get published or used by someone else. And only by doing this work I found out that one of them was actually used already. And if I didn’t go to TEDx, which motivated me to work on the photos, I would have probably never found out that a photo was already used. Can this be called a synchronicity?
NB: Thanks to the magazine editors for using the photo fully according to the license under which it was published.