Finding Photography

I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY. I love it. I love that you can look at a good photograph and feel the emotion of it, or be amazed by something as simple as mushrooms. A good photograph is something that people can get lost in.

The challenge of photography is taking something as simple as mushrooms and making them amazing. Unfortunately it isn't as easy as walking to the local farmers market, pointing your camera at the mound of fungus and calling it a day. There is something else involved. I don't know what it is yet, but I am going to find it.

I know that there are people out there born with a talent for photography and I know that I am not one of these people, but I also know that I don't have to have to be born with talent if I am willing to work. I am currently a photography student and I am very excited about it, but it is turning out to be a lot more challenging than I thought. It's not just about the camera and what you can make it do, it is also about lighting and lines and things that I have minimal control over. I have to learn to see things differently and to be aware of how light hits things, the color of the light, the shadows that are cast. I also have the small issue of a lack of creativity lately. I am having an idea blockage and all the ideas I do have feel generic.

I have a lot of learning, working and developing in front of me, but I am teachable, willing and able to practice. I will find photography, it's just going to take me some time.