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Breaking Free from a Creative Rut
Photography is a muscle, the more you use it the better you become AND if you don’t use it, you lose it.
Warning: The following images below the fold are NSFW. Not because they’re porn, but because they show the female nipple and partially covered pubic hair.
I’m stuck in a creative rut and I need to break free. I felt like an anchor has weighed me down for many years and I’m cutting it loose. Finally!
There was a time when photography liberated me and I made wonderful photos but somewhere along the way, I became an iPhone snapper. I stopped “making” photos and started “taking” photos.
I don’t know where I went wrong or how it happened. Perhaps it was life or something more sinister, but after my existential crisis, I’ve decided to make a conscious effort to get out of this rut.
I need to break free and start shooting again, not for others but for me.
The sad thing is that I feel like I’m starting all over again, and that’s OK. Photography is a muscle, the more you use it the better you become AND if you don’t use it, you lose it.
When my friend Lee asked me to come down and help fill out a model’s time he booked, I said “Ok.” This was in May of this year, just over…
