Today I went for my first bike ride in months and it felt great, I'm almost starting to feel like myself again. On my ride I came across this great view of Downtown Denver and came back at night to capture it. The full resolution photo of this is quite amazing, but extremely large as it was made from six photos. The resulting file size after cropping is 58 mega-pixels, the photo you see when clicking on the thumbnail is less than 1 mega-pixel.Today I went for my first bike ride in months and it felt great, I'm almost starting to feel like myself again. On my ride I came across this great view of Downtown Denver and came back at night to capture it. The full resolution photo of this is quite amazing, but extremely large as it was made from six photos. The resulting file size after cropping is 58 mega-pixels, the photo you see when clicking on the thumbnail is less than 1 mega-pixel.
Lately I've been in kind of a photographic slump and was even entertaining the idea of down grading my equipment or even selling it all. I tend to go through phases where I lack inspiration and motivation but this is the worst its been. I feel exhausted and feel like I've given all I've got to give. Constantly working to meet other's expectations as well as my own has been rough.
Last year I pursued and explored many types of photography, which included club shoots, macro, portraiture, street, promotional, landscape, film, as well as learned the business aspects of it. I gained new found knowledge but I also developed disdain for some of the things I'd done over the past year. I've spread myself out too thin by forcing myself to do something different and better than the last and worrying too much if people would like my work.
I know I'll eventually get my motivation back, especially when I see displays of great talent like the artists who spray painted the above in downtown Denver. I really like the style and the kind of modern take on the Matryoshka doll. I actually got to see phases of it's development as it was started earlier in the week and I even got to see the artists working on it when I visited on one of my lunch breaks.
I know talent like this is the result of continually working hard at getting better and not giving up. I may be burned out by all the various things I've encountered through photography but in contemplating this, I appreciate all the experiences because each has made me the photographer I am today. I feel I've developed a strong base knowledge of photography and I just need to use that to take the next step forward in perhaps reinventing myself; perhaps by no longer worrying about what other people think and just focusing on having fun.
"It's never too late to reinvent the bicycle" -SOAD
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