This is the time of year when I wonder if I will ever take another interesting photo.
The time of year when I wonder if I've lost my mojo.
Experience over the last many years has shown that the truth is -- I am totally bored with my subject matter.
I need to take myself to the art museum, or the botanical garden's conservatory.........
In the mean time, I can appreciate color where I find it, even if there's nothing thrilling about the pic.
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6 comments:
I love your photos...keep snapping!
Thanks. :-)
I love your photos too. You have the ability to see things that others don't until they see it presented in a photo. So often it's those little unimportant things that are special and lots of your photos are truely awesome.
You find the best textures, colours, shapes and shadows. Although i consider myself to be a creative person i've gone with camera in hand many times determined to get some good pics but can't find anything to shoot. I'm like many others who walk right past beauty and wonderous nature, not seeing the forest for the trees. Please don't stop, your photos are so meaningful to me and maybe to more than you think.
What nice things to hear, Lorraina!
Thank you. :-)
I won't stop. I know that the way to get back to being happy with my pics is to keep taking them.
This has happened to me every year at this time (ever since I started blogging).
I know that it's more a matter of being bored with monotonous subject matter than anything else.
I need to get out and see different things........
:-)
Thank you for writing. I appreciate it!
Vicki - amen. You said exactly what I'm feeling right about now.
One of the great things about photography (at least now, in this modern age! :-) ) is that it is so quick and cheap.
It would be harder for me to keep going, if I were "wasting precious materials" or if I spent days/weeks/months making one thing that, in the end, I didn't like............
One of the great things about blogging is that I am so aware of the ups and downs (and the seasonality thereof).
The desire/intent to post essentially every day keeps me thinking about the fact that, at this time of year, I get seriously bored with what I'm seeing every day.
If I weren't blogging, I'd stop taking pics (as nothing is catching my eye), and would start again later when there is more color in my world.
I might not notice that this -- lack of interest in looking, or in taking pics of what I see -- happens every year.
The fact that I've experienced this many times now, and that it happens every year at this time, have made it easy to understand that this is just the way it goes.
Not fun, but temporary.
And I am totally convinced that the more I keep going, regardless, the sooner I'll get back in the groove.
Even if I can't stay there very long during the monochromatic season!
:-)
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