Ain't Nobody Got Time For That

I'm fighting what I like to call "work comfort." It's that point you reach where you job is enough to provide you with essentials: food, roof, entertainment... but the amount of time I spend there cuts into energy usually reserved for heading out into the world to do what I love to do. Make photos. The past week has been even heavier. As I type this I'm getting ready to go in for my 7th day of work in a row. There are open hours in the day, sure, but I've been feeling pretty strapped for free time lately.

Ok so maybe I have some spare time...

Thankfully, I have a very understanding girlfriend. The lady is happy to take a bit of our time together and use it to satisfy my need for little photo adventures. Just the other night we took a quick detour into downtown San Diego so I could get a shot I had been thinking about for the better part of a week.

Worth it.

I let my last full time job completely sap my energy for photography. It may have been because I felt dirty for shilling crappy souvenir prints to people who didn't really want/need them. It may have been the commute when the job was far away. It may have been the added responsibility of being management. In any event I let it pretty much kill my creativity.

I won't let that happen again.

Vision

"Sometimes you have to look past what you're looking at to see what you want to see." Doesn't that sound like someone important said it? Actually I just made it up. The great (and sometimes terrible) thing about blogs is that people get to look inward and say what they really want to say.

When I look inward I see desserts...

It's difficult to describe where ideas for photos come from. Sometimes it's seeing something interesting and trying to find an angle that paints it in a desirable light. Sometimes you hear words in a song or spoken out loud that strike a chord somewhere. Sometimes you see a social trend and feel the need to comment on it artistically. The point here is that in order to be creative you have to always be looking. Keep your eyes open to new experiences, places, sounds, people. You'll find that the more you look for, the more you'll see.