The Death Of Ideas
For creatives, a lack of ideas is very often a seeming disaster, subjectively speaking. Creative blockages, becoming stuck in a rut and simply treading old ground will often be signs of an absence of inspiration and ideas. If you think about it though, a lack of ideas is rarely the real problem. In fact, an [...]
Inspired By Others
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.
The RAW vs JPEG Debate and March calendar
A gallery from the Taiwan Lantern Festival in Pingxi, Taiwan is now online. It’s the beginning of another month, so it’s time for another free desktop calendar that you can download. Choose your size according to the links below. This photo is from the main prayer hall (mussala) of the National Mosque (Masjid Negara) in [...]
Time For A Break?
I’m sure that everyone has heard the term “writer’s block” or the phrase “stuck in a rut”. It’s something that can cast a negative type of influence over a creative’s life from time to time. I have a friend who normally shoots some quite strong portraiture work yet lately his work seems to be lacking [...]
For The Love of (Photo)Books
2009 has been a great year for photography related books in all their forms. My own reading and viewing this year has seen me with lifetime retrospectives, inspirational essays, business practice guides, eBooks and technical and tutorial styled works. As I turned my thoughts to a year-end summary of all the books that have passed [...]
Turning Tides of Creativity – Back To The Soul of Photography
One of the distinguishing facets of the digital age of photography has been the technological advances and innovations. Unlike in the film era, where a camera body might be used for decades, these days it seems we’re upgrading and replacing bodies at a frequency never imagined a decade ago. While these advances are undoubtedly opening [...]
Passion and Warfare
Back in 1990, guitarist and composer Steve Vai released an instrumental rock album with the title “Passion and Warfare”. I don’t know why he decided on Passion and Warfare for the title, but to me, this is an album born out of his passion. It’s this passion that causes him to – in his own [...]
The War of Art – 3 Questions For Steven Pressfield
Recently, I bought and read Steven Pressfield‘s excellent book, The War of Art : Break Through The Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. Pressfield, perhaps best known for his novel “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, presents a non-fiction book aimed at writers, artists, musicians and other people attempting to channel and direct their creative [...]
People and A Sense of Place – Musings on Environmental Portraits
One of the most useful skills a photographer can have is the ability to convey a sense of place to the viewer. This is particularly true for the travel photographer. For the professional, the photos are often required to sell a destination or illustrate a story. For the amateur, it might be to wow family [...]
Excuses and Resistance
Have you created anything today? What have you done that furthers your art, your calling? If the answer is “nothing”, why?
Musings on Creativity and Assignment Photography
While processing some older photos this morning, I came across the above image. It was taken in Hualien, on Taiwan’s east coast back in February but has sat in its RAW state ever since. I originally intended it to be one of the exposures in an HDR image, but thus far, I haven’t processed it [...]
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