In this self-produced video, Montreal photographer Benjamin Von Wong talks about his decision to leave a 9-to-5 engineering job in January 2012 to become a photographer. Considering he has been in the business full-time for less than a year now, Von Wong has been very successful and has developed a huge online following. Some of those followers have started asking lots of questions about his transisition from engineering to photography, and how he gets inspired to produce his very innovative photographs.
The video answers many of these questions, but for even more info you can check out the accompanying article he posted on his blog: www.vonwong.com/blog/inspiration/

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