Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You said that you don't really like shooting people, so street photography holds no appeal. I think you may be missing out on one of the greatest opportunities to whet your photography. Photography is the street doesn't mean being a sniper. It also should not mean gathering evidence that some people have a crappy life. I don't know where you live, but I live in a little town where hardly anything ever happens, (if you ask my kids,) yet I've been able to sustain a picture a week project for four years. Precious little of my work is traditional street photography; it is mostly just slices of life, Sometimes a cat, sometimes a flower. Mostly, I carry a camera all the time, and when I see light acting nice, I take a picture. Your problem may be that you are running out of postcards to shoot. There are still dogs, and guys working on bulldozers, and people at carnivals. I cannot see how anyone can run out of anything to shoot. Last night, I dreamt I was walking through a old warehouse. I don't remember why, but I do recall this part of my dream; I had forgotten my camera, and was mourning that I was missing some great shafts of light on the old stuff. Resolve today; Don't be seen without your camera. Take it everywhere until the point arrives that if you do not have it, you feel naked. Do this for two months, and then post again. I'll bet you $20 US dollars that you will have changed. This is a serious wager. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish In a message dated 6/24/2005 2:17:23 A.M. Central Daylight Time, rmcclure2@woh.rr.com writes: Hello, I've run into a dry spell where I'm just about out of photo ideas. I't seems like I've photographed every barn, cow, bird, bridge, landscape, sunrise and sunset within a 30 mile radius of my home base here in central Ohio (about 3000 images). I've also run dry at our vacation home on Lake Erie (about 1000 images). In recent correspondence with my brother in Maryland, he is also in the same photo slump. I don't really like shooting people, other than family snaps, so street photography holds no appeal. Travel does refresh me, but opportunities to do so are currently limited. Any ideas how to break this slump? Rob McClure Upper Sandusky, OH