Photo Motivation
Morston Norfolk uk
I haven’t really been feeling the motivation or inspiration just lately to go out and make street photographs.
I’ve been going out with good intentions, but once I’m there I have this feeling of I can’t be bothered. Every now and again it happens to us all, we want to be creative but sometimes our brains say “No sorry, not today, I can’t be arsed” I’ve been going through this over the last few occasions that I’ve ventured out onto the streets, one part of me wants to be out there, but another part is totally against it. I went about the usual remedies, looking through photo books, watching youtube videos, it helped to a degree, but I knew I would have to do more.
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I had been out a few days before, just after our lock down rules had been eased, many places were open again, shops gyms, hairdressers, I think I may have built it up in my mind a little to much that the streets would be packed and there would be many great opportunities to make some interesting street pictures, the three street pictures you see in this post are the images I made that day, I am pleased with them, I’m just not pleased with myself, I was too keen to finish and go home, I just didn’t want to be there. Even though there were indeed many more people than I had seen out for a long time, it was nothing like I had built it up to be in my mind. Once this had sunk in I got a little less motivated, I walked about without really looking, without really caring if I made any pictures or not. I wasn’t feeling excited like I thought I would be. It had happened, I was in a rut that I needed to get out of. As I’ve already said, I tried the usual things, but I needed to try something else.
So for a change I set an early alarm for the following day and I would head down to a small north Norfolk coastal village called Morston, where I would just make random pictures, anything that caught my eye.
I really did enjoy myself, it made a nice change photographing something different, I was drawn to the anchor ropes which were tied around the many posts dotted around the place, the texture of the earth beneath my feet where the tide had receded and the earth had dried out, forming cracks like you see in a desert landscape. I liked the idea that I had the place to myself, maybe that’s whats going on here, like many of us, we’ve become used to spending time in small groups or even on our own.
I don’t know if this change of scenery has had the desired effect, I guess I’ll have to wait and see when I head back out onto the streets. I’m feeling keen to get out there so that’s a good sign right?
I’ll let you know how I got on in my next post.
Here’s the rest of the pictures I made.
See you on he streets.
