Category Archives: Places
Waiting II
It has been a very busy few weeks for me, not leaving a lot of time for photography, or at least not as much as I would like. This week in particular I have felt like I am in a creative vacuum. This is my eighth week on the “lines” theme, and I am starting …
Denver Botanic Gardens
Mind’s Eye
What is your intention when you take a photo? What idea are you trying to convey, and how do you translate your thoughts into an image? How do you take what you see with your eyes and make your camera see the same thing?
8.8
Continuing on with the “line” theme (well, loosely anyway) I decided to change things up this week and shot mostly at a wide normal focal length; 8.8mm on the LX3. I have really enjoyed shooting the last few weeks. Restricting myself to only shooting only what I can see as a “line” has actually freed …
An Afternoon Alone
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.