How do you recharge your creativity?

[SAShruby]

IMO, economic recession impacts negatively people's minds. One possible project is to shoot recession. Plenty of around these days. It also happens once per 10-15 years...

Personally, I can't get myself from state of defining my own style to a production phase. Two years and counting. And I'm tired to take pictures of objects they have been created and they're there (like landscapes, streets, etc.). Not my taste, I'm looking after having my own "art work", sort of unique. I really like what Gandolfi does, he makes something others can't copy. That's what I call "my work".

[vlad]

haha, Brian, that was fun to read! )

[Steve Sherman]

haha, Brian, that was fun to read! )

Polite too!

[Diane Maher]

Thanks guys. This is just the kind of discussion I'd hoped for, and I knew there would be a wide-range of ideas.
I'm sure my wife's death in January is a big reason for all of this. She was my biggest fan, and encouraged me to pursue my passion. It was one of her last admonitions that I pursue an artistic expression.
I recently tried learning the process of making albumen prints and that was a frustrating disaster.
I have to make images (wet plate) at a benefit this weekend. Then I will put my photography on the back burner while I work on needed chores and until cooler weather prevails.

Sorry to hear about the death of your wife. I have felt in a rut myself for the last year (due to a divorce), but I think I am starting to come out of it. I took some workshops to meet new people and learn to improve my printing technique and shoot in a different location with different people. I am making my way through a backlog of negatives that need to be developed before I choose which ones I will print.

[Bruce Schultz]

I'm trying to get fellow wet-plate shooters in my region (Tx-La-Okla-Miss.) together for a weekend next month. Maybe that spark will lite a fire.