A Break

My professor always mentioned how he never touched his camera for over a year after he graduated. I thought surely that won’t be me! I’ve been shooting for close to 10 years now and I’ve never felt burnt out from photography. Well it happened, school has a way of producing and crushing your creativity, I greatly enjoyed the projects and what I learned in college but some assignments were.. well assignments they had creativness in them but they didn’t allow for the expansion of your creativity they were set up and shoot and go to the next assignment. The many different assingments gave me a very rounded photographic ability but didn’t give me the time to hone in on what I wanted to shoot. I went from livestock photography to architecture to portraiture to studio to film to video then was expected to choose a final project of something I was passionate about. But by then I had lost my sight of my passion, photo journalism had began to grow into the place but that wasn’t a “meaningful” project, and the project I did love was not interesting to enough people, but I thought it was supposed to be meaningful to me?

My camera has sat in it’s bag waiting to be taken on trips again waiting to be the source of my happiness. I feel it’s coming back again but the dream and goals have driven a different course yet the paths are beginning to get in sight again. I’ve taken to designing small things but they don’t interest me as much, I still sketch because I do not want to lose my creativity but it is more difficult than I thought it would be out of college to keep my spark.