Where’s Your Passion?
Where is your passion? What ignites that spark within?
Processing my latest images from a business trip to Las Vegas reminded me of what I am passionate about and certainly what I am not. Every Vegas image was a chore to process. No fun. No desire. No spark. I made it through six images with many more “good” images left but I had to stop. It was leaving me as cold and lifeless as dead fish on ice in the market. While fine images in their own right, each of these three leave me longing for something else.
In Aperture 3 now, wandered over to some left over images in my folder from our hike in Devil’s Den State Park and found one of the trail through the forest. Everything returned; caring, passion, commitment all for photography/art representing the beauty, the balance, the mystery and the grandeur of nature.
There is third type of image and that is the commercially viable image. I do not mind working on these as well, knowing that money will get pumped back into the business and can get spent on what I really care about it. But the Vegas glitz, lights, architecture… I will leave that to someone else.