Your apprach to Photography

[Ron Bose]

Maybe drinking that wine will help with the inspiration, but not too much ... make focusing harder !

[Dick Hilker]

That happens to me, too. That's why I'm an official amateur. Professionals have to suck it up, cover the assignment regardless of their levels of inspiration and deliver the goods. Then again, a little wine's not a bad idea!

[ljb0904]

Do you find that you have to be in a certain 'mood' to go out and see and take pictures that mean something to you or is it just me being weird?

Yes, I go out to the Sonoran Desert (my home) and come back with nothing on many occasions - it's such a brambly mess that it takes my small brain some time to sort things out into an image.

[Scott Knowles]

Yes, I go out to the Sonoran Desert (my home) and come back with nothing on many occasions - it's such a brambly mess that it takes my small brain some time to sort things out into an image.

That's me too. I'm a visual person, even writing I don't think in words but see sentences and paragraphs. But I have to remind myself to see differently. I often get too focused on one photo idea (mental image) and lose the many others inside or around that one. It's why I like viewing a diversity of photographers' work, to learn to think to see differently. I got the wooden manikin from a photographer on Photo.net.

And sadly, due to a genetic predisposition to Hemochromatosis I can't drink alcohol anymore, so my wine collection (about 30 bottles) collects dust, poses in photos or given as gifts. I can give myself an occasional microbrew with friends.

[Hollis]

Sometimes I read poetry and it is just a bunch of words. Then later I read the same poems and they are infused with meaning. Blame on the brain chemicals...

Life is so crazy-busy. It can be hard to make the time to photograph or make prints...then when it hurts so much not to get out and photograph, I make the time. At those times, I am ready (or I just walk through the redwoods with the 8x10 until I am.)

Vaughn

I see that you are from Humboldt County, Brain Chemicals huh????

Sorry, I had to.

I feel the same way. Sometimes you have it and sometimes you don't. The key thing is 1.) not to force it and 2.) identify when you are 'on' and capitalize on it. Sometimes that is not a possibility but you have to try your hardest. When I am really not producing any good work, I will load up in my car and start driving. Sometimes close by, sometimes I end up 8 states away or in Mexico (thats aother story for another post). It works for me.

Or you could just watch a David Lynch movie.

[Ken Lee]

Do you find that you have to be in a certain 'mood'

If it isn't about mood, then what is it all about ?