pukunui81
reflection
Found this beautiful reflection on the shore of the lake at Western Springs as I was heading back towards the zoo. I waited for the people walking along the path to be in just the right spot before clicking the button.
I commented before that I haven't been as active lately because it's the school holidays and the girls are keeping me busy. However, I think it's also because I've reached that point again where I want every photo I post to be better in some way than the last, so I slow down as I wait for the ideas to hit me.
I ran into this problem with the random album covers I used to do. They started off pretty simple, but then they started getting more and more creative ... or at least more and more complex and I started struggling to come up with ways for the next one to top the one that I'd done before. I didn't want to just do something simple and/or minimalist, not just because I already knew I could but also because they just looked a bit boring in comparison and weren't going to be something that would stretch me creatively. So I gave up doing them.
Now, please don't think that I've stopped taking photos altogether! I'm still snapping away. It's just that many of the more creative and/or complex ideas I've got floating around in my head aren't working out the way I'd like them to in practice, so I've got to rethink them and try again.
In the meantime, I will try to keep posting snapshots of the kids and the city and whatever else takes my fancy, even if they are "just" snapshots and thus aren't all that artistic. I'm not going to let myself give up again just because the going's got a little rough! The show must go on and all that, right?
EDIT: I think what I'm trying to say is that snapshots seem quite boring in comparison to the more artistic photos I've done, so part of me doesn't want to do snapshots anymore. For instance, one of my few remaining scavenger hunt challenges is "a dog & a bicycle". Now, I could just go out and find someone walking their dog and someone riding their bicycle and take a candid snapshot of them, but that would be boring and, if you'll forgive the pun, rather pedestrian. If I'm going to take a picture of a dog and a bicycle, then by golly it's going to be an artistic picture! So in the meantime, I've got to wait until inspiration strikes ...
reflection
Found this beautiful reflection on the shore of the lake at Western Springs as I was heading back towards the zoo. I waited for the people walking along the path to be in just the right spot before clicking the button.
I commented before that I haven't been as active lately because it's the school holidays and the girls are keeping me busy. However, I think it's also because I've reached that point again where I want every photo I post to be better in some way than the last, so I slow down as I wait for the ideas to hit me.
I ran into this problem with the random album covers I used to do. They started off pretty simple, but then they started getting more and more creative ... or at least more and more complex and I started struggling to come up with ways for the next one to top the one that I'd done before. I didn't want to just do something simple and/or minimalist, not just because I already knew I could but also because they just looked a bit boring in comparison and weren't going to be something that would stretch me creatively. So I gave up doing them.
Now, please don't think that I've stopped taking photos altogether! I'm still snapping away. It's just that many of the more creative and/or complex ideas I've got floating around in my head aren't working out the way I'd like them to in practice, so I've got to rethink them and try again.
In the meantime, I will try to keep posting snapshots of the kids and the city and whatever else takes my fancy, even if they are "just" snapshots and thus aren't all that artistic. I'm not going to let myself give up again just because the going's got a little rough! The show must go on and all that, right?
EDIT: I think what I'm trying to say is that snapshots seem quite boring in comparison to the more artistic photos I've done, so part of me doesn't want to do snapshots anymore. For instance, one of my few remaining scavenger hunt challenges is "a dog & a bicycle". Now, I could just go out and find someone walking their dog and someone riding their bicycle and take a candid snapshot of them, but that would be boring and, if you'll forgive the pun, rather pedestrian. If I'm going to take a picture of a dog and a bicycle, then by golly it's going to be an artistic picture! So in the meantime, I've got to wait until inspiration strikes ...