Resetting Your Photography
Catching up this week. I’ve been fighting a bout of procrastination at the moment, so I’m taking a bit of the easy way out, repurposing a post on Threads I made recently:
Resetting your photography:
We all have that one thing that we come back to repeatedly.
Especially when you might not feel motivated or inspired to photograph.
Or maybe you don’t know what to photograph, but you need to photograph something.
Mine is night photography; I have always been a night person. I was that kid who loved to stay up all night.
10-year-old Laidric staying up Friday and Saturday nights.
Watching music videos and eating Vienna sausages and crackers until the sun rose.
Seeing those sausages in the grocery store makes me sick these days.
But 37 years later, I still love staying up at night.
I got older and started driving.
I spent many summer nights with the windows down and the sunroof open (even though it was around 90 degrees in Texas!).
Nothing to do, no particular place to go.
Just aimless hours of driving.
Gas was cheaper back then, which made doing that a little easier.
After my son's birth, I only thought of combining my aimless night wandering with my photography.
My wife worked weekends, so it was me and him during the day and us as a family in the evenings.
When he started sleeping through the night, I would head out for a few hours to photograph.
Those restrictions got me into a rhythm, and I made a couple of bodies of work that I’m proud of.
Even with gas being how it is now, I still like to get out now and then for a few hours.
It’s become a reset for me now.
A shock to my system that tells me, “Hey, remember you still love to do this!”
These are just some thoughts that were on my mind recently, mixed in with some photographs that I’m working on including in a new zine (that is, whenever I end up with enough photographs).
Until next time…
Until next time,
Laidric