Friends, apologies for this ramble, maybe I just need to sort some thougts, so I take advantage of this group therapy... )
I've been away from the forum for some time, being waay too busy with other things (job+publishing business+family+academia) but in all this I have rather painfully realized how much do I miss photography and te joys (and pains) of it. It isn't that I did not touch a camera in months, I did take now and than something "small" (that is, medium) with me on business or family trips, but it was usually just a TLR or my fuji rangefinder. After developing the rolls (often months after shooting them) I have sometimes realized that many of those negatives should not have been taken and were result of just some impatient urge to bring home a negative, so to speak...
In recent weeks I have slowly started to prescribe myself a "tripod cure" - "anchor" myself again and restrict to (at least) a 4x5 pinhole which makes me much more selective, and seeing the first result I am contemplating a self-imposed "fasting" period of anything smaller than 4x5, or rather, anything with a viewfinder (which apparently makes me snappy) - and to slow down and think and maybe come home "empty-handed" but knowing that I have been honest with my eye and mind and have not pressed the shutter in vain.
I don't know if this makes sense, but I was wondering, whether anyone went trough a similar "stage" and with what results...
Thank you for any thoughts...
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