Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------FAF87C4E325D78F71333FE3D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nathan Wajsman wrote: SNIP >I think that I am going to bail out of the project, because I feel obliged > to go out and take a picture even though I do not feel like photographing today. > That is scary--this is what work feels like, and I do not want my photography to > become "work". > > Nathan Nathan, I know how you feel. You should try doing it for a living for real. You have to be creative and inspired and fresh and trying to make photos that no one else could make as well as trying not to repeat what you've already done on other jobs or assignments. That's what I have my Leicas for. When it starts to feel like work I take one of my Leicas (which I keep loaded with film only for myself) and go wandering. I keep it with me even when I'm running errands or just going to the bar. These are my photos. Not client photos. Then you rediscover what it is you love about photography. If it helps take the pressure off don't worry about a meaningful photo a day. Consider, as others are doing, one a week. Make it fun and make it a chronology. Carl Socolow - --------------FAF87C4E325D78F71333FE3D Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="csocolow.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for csocolow Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="csocolow.vcf" begin:vcard n:Socolow;Carl x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Socolow Photography adr:;;;Camp Hill;PA;17011;USA version:2.1 email;internet:csocolow@microserve.net fn:Carl Socolow end:vcard - --------------FAF87C4E325D78F71333FE3D--