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Subject: [Leica] Out of Ideas : "Mastery" by George Leonard
From: matt at kollarfoto.com (Matt Kollasch)
Date: Fri Jun 24 08:28:43 2005
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Perhaps you have arrived at a plateau?  The plateau, according to George 
Leonard, is where we live a good part of our lives. It is "... the long 
stretch of diligent effort with no seeming progress."  His approach is 
Zen: "...practice regularly and hard for no particular goal at all, just 
for its own sake."  You know, chop the wood, carry the water.. and then 
do it again and again and again.  In short this book helped me to 
understand lulls of creativity in my own life. And it inspired me to 
keep "chopping wood."  "Mastery" is recommended for all participants in 
the Maine Photographic Workshops.

Good luck as you work through the dry spell.  /matt

George Leonard. _Mastery: The Keys To Success and Long-term 
Fulfillment_. Plume, 1991. 176 pages. 14 USD
Amazon link: *http://tinyurl.com/9rouq*

>> 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
>
matt@kollarfoto.com | kollarfoto.com

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That's how the light gets in..."
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