Inspiration can come from other fields such as this disabled musician.

David du Chemin had an interesting post recently entitled “Go To The Writers”. In it, he talks about taking creative inspiration from other fields, focusing mainly on writers. If you haven’t seen it, you should make a point of checking it out.

It’s not just writers though. I’m an avid reader, I go through a lot of books and magazines on a variety of topics but I also take a lot of inspiration from other fields, not always in the artistic fields. Seeing others push themselves beyond limits, either their own or those created by society, can be a very inspiring thing.

Lance Armstrong coming back from cancer to win seven years of the Tour de France. Regardless of what you think about doping and whether or not he did, coming back like he do required tenacity, persistence and hard work.

Jimmy Page going from a behind the scenes session musician in the mid 1960s to creating Led Zeppelin and taking them to the top of the world within a few short years.

Robert Ludlum transitioning from theater producer to one of the world’s best-selling thriller writers. He was in his 40s before his first novel was published.

Numerous stories of penniless immigrants becoming successful business owners and community leaders. Rags to riches stories.

All of these feature hard luck, persistence, desire, luck and patience. Apply these traits to your photography. When the muse isn’t there, your photos are not exciting you and you’re thinking of giving up, think of Edmund Hilary and Tenzin Norgay. When the were going through the death zone of Mt Everest for the first time and every step was an enormous struggle, did they quit?

Inspiration is wherever you want it to be.

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