Daily Image ……probably

I’m going to try and post at least one image a day, not for you but, for me. I watch too many YouTube videos about photography and read too many books and magazines to get inspiration (sometimes I think holy shit how did that get published!?) but I only pick up my camera maybe twice a week to actually go out and take photos. So I’m a hypocrite.

I take a shitload of photos of my son and I’m always out on my balcony taking the same composition with different lighting/weather, but I’ve realised that I don’t pick up my camera enough to go out with the purpose of training my eye, looking for compositions and actually taking fucking photos!

When I take my camera out without a brief and just wander, I absolutely bloody love it! It’s what keeps me interested in photography. Every time I come back from on a day or night shoot, I have loads of images that I’m excited to go through. Sometimes I may look at them and think “Christ !, what was I thinking!” Or I may look at them and think “right…ok, with enough post processing, I might be able to polish that turd.

I go through little phases of inspiration and love to try new things. Im sure every other photographer has been through that. Photographers find their style and stick to what they’re good at. Me, I like to give everything a go, maybe im still trying to find “my style” after 15 years, but I just love photography and art and there are so many different styles and genres when it comes to inspiration that it’s unlimited as to what you can create. I get excited and fidgety when I look at other people work, my mind goes into photography overdrive and I’m trying to work out how I would have done It different or if I could recreate it from my own perspective. Even watching a tv programme or a movie I’ll look at the lighting and think of where “locally” I could maybe recreate that atmosphere. Right now i’m going through a Wes Anderson phase as I love his work so I’ve challenged myself that when i’m out for a walk then ill take inspiration from his films . I went through an Edward Hopper phase too like most other photographers but it’s always there in my mind when im looking at light and composition.

Maybe I’ll just keep taking inspiration from others. Maybe I’ll find “my style”

More likely I’ll just enjoy what I do.

But I’m a bit lost with too many directions.

This is just a wee rant. About how I don’t take enough photos and don’t practice photography enough. But I bloody love it when I do.

Fucking hell, what a waffle that was.