Let’s have an honest talk about why we create. The real insides of what it takes to do what we do, why we do it, and why we keep doing it. Creating isn’t always easy. It can be motivating, inspiring, and downright amazing. But that doesn’t make it easy. Every artist will go through a period of questioning: Am I good enough? Do I deserve to do this? Will anyone care? And finally, the biggest question of all: WHY? That is…
As I plan and prep to shoot something different to what I’ve been doing lately, I needed a day of down time to edit something familiar. Do you ever feel like you need to recharge your batteries and do something that reminds you of why you love your craft? That was how I felt the other day when I started piecing this image together. I shot it back in January and only now dug it up. I finally felt ready…
I’ve been very inspired lately by various media influences. I usually opt to find inspiration from within or from my environment, but these three items on my inspiration list left me speechless in one way or another. I highly recommend you check them out! What has inspired you lately? Share it so that more people can find inspiration! 1. Maleficent I list this one first because I saw it first, about two weeks ago, and absolutely loved it. It was…
“Don’t let what you don’t have stop you from what you could create.” How often are we plagued with the repetitive thought that we cannot create unless we have something more to create with. A better camera, a new tripod, that awesome speed-light, or just a bigger budget entirely? There are amazing photographers out there who are able to spend a lot of cash for every photo they create, and that is a really wonderful thing to have at your…
Last week I felt like I needed to get away. I had a moment where I put my head down and just let myself dream. And when I did that, I thought of a fairy, and the forest, and what I could do with that inspiration. Soon it morphed into something entirely different, and I found myself, about one hour later, flinging my body onto a rock in the middle of a creek. And all of this is wonderful –…