So .. lately I've been getting out with my camera. Actually I have been doing it more frequently off and on for the past 2 months but I think lately I've finally made a breakthrough.
To explain ..
When I was going out for fall photos and so on, it was more like pulling photography teeth. I'd go out with a friend and they're snapping away and I'm standing there. .. thinking I see absolutely nothing here. .. then about an hour or so until the deal, if not longer, I finally see one or two things worth catching. But the whole time the world looks no different to me .. not like before.
The other day I went out and I hit that ceiling. Right off the bat something caught my eye. Then, like before, that first shot, which still lives on my hard drive, turned into something else .. and so on. Next thing you know I'm out for hours and still going .. and not wanting to go in because all of a sudden the street I've worked on since April now looks so different to me.
Since then I've been willingly taking my camera more often and sighing on the days that it's stayed at home. And moaning on the night the batteries were dead (hey, i'm out of practice and the last thing I think about are those batteries!). Now, I'm sitting here trying not to go out and almost miserable that I'm still sitting here.
And to top it off ... for a change I'm actually pulling photos off of my camera that I like, and it's not just one or two of them, it's most of them.
Finally .. a breakthrough .. I think.
At the same time I'm half beating myself over it because of all the times it should not be happening now. But that's another blog and probably not one I'm willing to rehash right now .. as it may do exactly what I think it will .. which is demotivate me.
On that note I'm going to stop writing and watch some TV for a while .. :o)
