- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
I find something about the nature of a Challenge - to be akin to the nature of how I go about writing, day in, day out. It's one of the untaught lessons which most writers learn somewhere along the line: that especially on the days when one feels blocked, or you really want to do anything else rather than sit down at the keyboard for awhile, those are the times when you have to find a way to do it nonetheless. The theory being that 'creativity' doesn't happen either magically or by itself, but emerges from the daily grind. Not that this Challenge has been a grind for me (yet, knock on wood) - but there have been days when either a) I didn't feel like shooting, or b) I had a camera with me and couldn't for the life of me figure out what the hell I wanted to take a picture of, or c) I forced myself to take a handful of pictures in spite of all of them seeming (at the time of taking, at least) to be supremely uninteresting or visually boring.
The cool thing that happens occasionally, especially when you've got your camera with you, and are despairing of ever finding a worthy subject or even a photo you would consider framing... sometimes, you will 'see' something that you hadn't noticed, or possibly walked right by, 5 minutes before.
But the opposite happens with me too: taking a number of pictures of something I'm convinced will turn into a photo or an image I like, and then adding one or two others afterwards almost at random, 'just because', even though I'm pretty certain they will suck; and then, later, discovering the ones I thought were the 'sure thing' actually didn't come out at all, and the ones I thought sucked, are much more interesting than I had previously imagined.
But...hey! Today is the 15th so... we're halfway there!
The cool thing that happens occasionally, especially when you've got your camera with you, and are despairing of ever finding a worthy subject or even a photo you would consider framing... sometimes, you will 'see' something that you hadn't noticed, or possibly walked right by, 5 minutes before.
But the opposite happens with me too: taking a number of pictures of something I'm convinced will turn into a photo or an image I like, and then adding one or two others afterwards almost at random, 'just because', even though I'm pretty certain they will suck; and then, later, discovering the ones I thought were the 'sure thing' actually didn't come out at all, and the ones I thought sucked, are much more interesting than I had previously imagined.
But...hey! Today is the 15th so... we're halfway there!
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