Tyler Shields

You have to find focus before you can have balance, self portrait with the Rollieflex from 1959 what is the thing you focus on the most?

There is always that moment where you have to decide do you want to keep doing what's safe or do you want to challenge yourself. Behind the scenes with @natalynlind pic by @jordonfink

Attitude is an idea and like any idea it can be powerful or corrupted, the power comes from how you choose to use it. Portrait of @madspaige

Moments in history used to be discovered through news papers. With @grantgust and @dpanabaker How do you get your news?

You can only quantify love at one point in life the moment you are heart broken, if you weigh yourself the moment before and the moment after you will way less after, because love has weight and when its taken from you a piece of you is gone thats the only true way to measure love.

When you fear being loved you fear living life. Sometimes it takes a shot across the bow to wake you up and realize what you want or what you have for some people it never happens but if your lucky enough to see it then your lucky enough to change because of it. @scoutlaruewillis in my new Polaroid series

When you work and work and work you sometimes forget to stop and take a moment, it happens to me all the time, this year has been none stop and has gone by so fast, today I came across 10 photos of prints which all signify a moment in my life. Making prints has been a life changing thing for me being able to shoot whatever I want and have galleries seemed like a dream, when I started taking photographs, I could only afford to take 3 photos per shoot when I started and only 1 roll of film a month, can't thank you all enough for all the support!

Butterfly as a part of my new series I am doing on 8 by 10 large format. Yes the butterfly is real and yes this was an incredibly difficult photograph to create. It took over 30 minutes of positioning for just 1 photo especially when doing large format you can't see the image as you are taking it. That being said the detail on this may be the most I have ever seen in any of my work to date when you see this large scale there is nothing that compares for the large format. 60 by 45 inch print edition of 3.

Self improvement with @pageruth some people get so caught up with how they are on the outside they forget that a pretty face doesn't matter if your insides are rotten.

A dream of mine was to be able to shoot anything I wanted and make prints for people to put in their homes I had no idea how difficult that was at the time but as with anything it's what are you willing to put into it, when things get hard so much that they seem impossible do you give up or do you fight through it that will determine success for you. Swipe right to see a few collections from the last couple years and I would love to know which would you put on your wall?

In 2012 I started a series called Suspense which was the most drastic change for me and my work up to that point, by 2013 the series was completed and I opened the show with @guyhepner in Beverly Hills the work was so different than what anyone had seen from me it was shocking to some people but for me it was the beginning of something new, it's easy to get caught up doing the same thing, you have to challenge yourself as much as you can. This is a self portrait of me doing a back flip in the middle of the desert it was a lost shot, it was on a roll of film lost in a bag for over 4 years only to just be found, but there it is frozen in time forever.

Electric Charging with @anamulvoyten @ellerysprayberry This has been a very hard week for a lot of people I know it's important when you feel like everything is crashing down on you to remember the past is gone you can't change it but you can be better for the future it just takes dedication. Have you had a weird week?

The mind is one of the great untapped resources. It's an interesting time we are living in so easy to be distracted so easy to chase the past, the challenge we all face is to push forward and to create. For anyone out there who feels stuck who sees no light at the end of the tunnel the road to success is paved with razor blades and scorpions but you can navigate it if you are willing to never give up.

The girl in the mirror with @alliemarieevans taken on 8 by 10 in the middle of no where, this was quite the journey, a 14 hour drive and having this mirror waiting(in my house) for for 3 months for the weather to get right then another 2 months while I found the exact camera I wanted to take the photo on. The detail of this is something that I could only achieve on 8 by 10 which makes the print of this un like anything I had ever done. Nipples have been blurred to comply with Instagram rules. What is the furthest you have ever driven?

The portrait is something that seems so easy to most people but can be one of the hardest things to do in photography, over the years I have been lucky enough to shoot some incredible people who have given me things they would never give anyone, I thought I would ad a little collection of people here. @evanpeters @glenpowell Dave Franco @cameronmonaghan @reevecarney @coltonlhaynes and @ashstymest

Throw back to Bunny one of my first works with @pageruth had an amazing show and book signing in London and met some amazing people some people flew in and one girl took a 4 hour bus ride just to get her book signed, quite an amazing thing!

Warhol brushes 45 by 45 inches it's one of those prints that you never really see until you see it printed and big, What an amazing opening with @imitatemodern I can't wait for the book signing Wednesday from 2-5pm in London at the imitate modern gallery come by and say hello!