Month: September 2012
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An Afternoon Alone
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Inspiration is a Process
We all want to become better at this craft. So why is it that so many of us only take photos when we “feel inspired”? If you follow A Lesser Photographer then you may have already read this. Inspiration doesn’t “strike.” Inspiration is scheduled. I would add that inspiration is a process. Think about the…
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Building Blocks
I often struggle to find confidence with photography. I am afraid that if I shoot something similar to what someone else has shot that I have failed because I did not create something that has not been created before. Or I feel like ‘I don’t have an eye for anything’ right now. I was encouraged…
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Connection
This week was a struggle for me to find any sort of photographic inspiration. Waiting until nearly the last minute, I finally forced myself out the door, falling back on “just shoot something”. It almost seems like the cyclist in the foreground is looking for a connection, maybe based on a common interest. But in…
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Things Left Undone
You know how you get excited about a new project? You get started, then distracted, and pretty soon you are worse off than before you began.