Feeling a resurgence of creativity in recent days ...
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| ' emergent ' |
... where sky, water and rock come together.
Maintaining creativity requires nourishment in a balanced diet, the work of others, new experiences, familiarity and room to breath among the menu items. It also requires an outlet, online, to clients or for personal pleasure. One or the other can be interrupted for a time but without nourishment, my creativity withers in time. Without an outlet, the process backs up and and slowly comes to a halt. To use a familiar (to me) analogy, it's like a sourdough starter. You can put it away for a while but it needs to be fed from time to time and at various points you are going to have to use some, discard or give some away. This is how it works ... for me anyway.
These last couple of years, COVID times, have made it difficult to find the nourishment for my photographic creativity. For a time the archive sustained, restrictions limiting, the familiar not enough as time wore on. There were always outlets, social media, online and this blog but it more would have been better.
Recently, the return to fall, my love of the colours and changing seasons has provided fresh sustenance. I'm out walking trails, enjoying forests and the outdoors with camera again. Photo projects for business clients too provided new opportunities, reviving old acquaintances and more recently some print sales adding to the mix.
Here's hoping that it's uphill into the light for a while ....
DJE
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