What you have written makes perfect sense. Getting out in the boonies by
yourself can be very rejuvenating. Most people don't have access to
wilderness but there are quiet serene places in urban areas if you can find
them. I choose to live in the boonies where wilderness is easy to find.
/jmac
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Behalf Of Richard Lovison
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:30 AM
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Subject: [OM] Re: Workout - Day 1
On 4/26/06, Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Exactly what I find, stop looking at other peoples photographs for a while
> (internet, magazines, books, exhibitions) and look for inspiration in
> other
> things, e.g. music, theatre, etc.
I read an article by Dewitt Jones the other day that touched upon
inspiration. He felt as he put it, that starting each day with a "full cup"
or in other words "being so stoked on life that you're just about to burst"
was a wonderful way to begin the day. I feel that if I could do this, it
would provide all the inspiration I would need. And in reality, it's
probably more easily said than done. His method for "filling the cup" was
to list ten things that you love to do, then the date the last time you did
them and then meditate upon that list for a while.
For me, hiking in the woods away from civilization is something I love to do
as well as snapping images. I seem to get my better photographs when I have
no expectations in mind as to what to shoot before I take my hike. So in
other words, I guess the hiking comes first and the photography second. My
images of the Herons would never have come about if I hadn't met someone on
one of my hikes that mentioned a second pond located close to where I was
hiking. I looked at some satellite imagery, located the pond and planned an
adventure. An abandoned home, a beautiful little pond and a Heron rookery
were the gifts.
I'm not sure if what I just wrote makes sense to anyone or if anyone on the
list even gives a hoot about it though I hope it strikes a chord in someone
and does some good. I've struggled with inspiration for what to photograph
for a good ten years and upon reflection it seems what my problem was, was
that after 40 something years, I forgot who I was. And at 51 I think I'm
just beginning to remember. I loved the wilderness soon after I learned to
walk. I fell in love with photography before I was a teenager.
Richard
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