I just don’t know what it is lately, but I think I’ve lost my spark to photograph. I’ve had a camera in my hands since before the dawn of pixel images. In high school, if I wasn’t in the music room (yes, I was one of those band-geek kids), then I was in the photo labs. I tore through rolls of film by the gross. I “oops, missed math class because I didn’t hear the bell ring inside the dark room” so many times… I stopped counting.
After my mid-twenties passed (and those of you who know my story) when I picked up my first digital camera I was hooked again. I never left home without it. It was my American express card. Although, looking back through gigabytes of stored images, the grainy quality was much less than desired and the color rendering was just awful. If these images were not of family significance, I’ve deleted them!
Anyway, I suffered through lens envy – camera craves – lighting lunacy. You know the malady, I was afflicted. But now…..
Nothing seems interesting right now. I seem to have lost my sight. I need inspiration.
I’ve been surfing the Internet like days of old when you felt eventually, you would reach the very last web page and have to turn back (wasn’t that an Apple commercial or something?). I launched myself into Pinterest too – hoping against hope that I would stumble upon something of interest to me… and maybe others. Still new at the Pinterest thing, I suspect that will take time.
Maybe I need a day trip to someplace new.
Maybe a need a holiday just for me.
Maybe I need a new photo safari with my one and only.
Maybe I need to see works of other that are in fact, inspiring. I must admit, I’m REALLY tired of every human who owns an iPhone or a OneShot posting their latest snapshot of lunch and calling it art. Seriously, I need something with lines, texture, movement, light! Interest! INTRIGUE!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody?
I pulled this image from my archives. Summer of 2011 Piper and I day tripped to the N. Conway, NH region and stumbled across this retired plow train parked along side Rt 302. High noon, horrible lighting with the sun shining bright, but I worked on this one to get the brooding front of the plow to dwarf the cabin and light above it. I thought it OK to wash out the sky to draw some cold attention to the grain and relief of the steel plow front. I like it, you?
Spring weather is finally around the corner. Maybe I can get out then to see what unfolds.
Maybe…