Most days, I am in a photographic motivation lull, well I guess it’s more of a barren wasteland. Oh, I do things related to photography. I read articles, I browse the work of others, I talk about photography, I write about photography, and I even work with honing my editing skills but to actually get motivated to take new photographs I’m stuck. Part of it is its winter. I have grown to really not enjoy winter, hint I don’t like being cold. Some of the rest of it is somewhat due to an attempt to escape day-to-day reality through video games and mindless television.
There are 220 million Google hits on motivation and countless books exist on the topic. All of these have very similar tips and techniques of which I have found that few actually work at least with me. I suspect I’m not alone. So, how do we motivate ourselves? Maybe it is just to get camera gear out and tinker with it. Dust it off, wipe down your gear. Maybe it is just set aside a couple of hours a week. Maybe it is just writing down your ideas. Maybe it is a bit of all those. Whatever it is, let’s find a way to reenergize our creativity and do photography. Let me know your thoughts.
Photographer Clay 
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