Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]kyle: > so i'm left to wonder -- when is it an idiom and when is it a rut? ya > shoot > the things ya shoot -- for some reason it feels right, but that doesn't > necessarily make it right. time passes, stacks of negatives accumulate > and > what are you left with? sometimes it's linguini, other times it's > garbage. ditto what tina said. just to add, sometimes you have to keep doing the same thing to get through it. if there's something you like to photograph over and over and over, it'll change and evolve. it might end up being something totally different from what you started with, and you might finish it. if you want to read something about the creative process, getting through it, knowing when to quit, knowing when not to quit, etc, have a look at anne lamott's _bird by bird_. ultimately, i guess, you have to follow your instincts. if your instincts tell you to keep photographic goth.girls, keep at it. you'll have something great someday. - --brad - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "America sells everything with sex and then recoils when presented with the realities of natural process." --Jock Sturges "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg "Rap is a continuation of the Sex Pistols; it's quite obvious." --John(nny Rotten) Lydon - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html