DEAR MARK, All the suggestions so far have been very good. I do (or will do) them and I also pick up my copy of ART AND FEAR and read it again! Amazing how is kick starts my creativity. CHEERS! BOB Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/ "Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are going to live forever". Mahatma Gandhi -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Blackwell Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 1:01 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Getting rid of a block Georges Giralt wrote: > Mark Blackwell a écrit : >> Once in a while I just get in a mood where I don't really want to get >> out and take pictures. I still enjoy it. I would describe it more >> like a writers block. Nothing really seems new an exciting to the >> point that you can't wait to see what shows up when the negs come out >> of the soup. >> >> Anyone else run into this and what did you do to get rid of it? >> >> Mark > Hi Mark ! > I you're stuck, unable to take new picts, go to the old one. > When I'm in the same mood as you, I open my set of contacts, and look > through them. I often find one or two, unprinted, and print them. > Sometimes, they gave me ideas on how to take a new pict. like the old > one, but this time without this or with that.... > Another lead is to try a new piece of equipment (it does not need to > be yours, try something rented or borrowed from a friend). It puts the > works into it's path again ! > Hope this helps I have a very old 4x5 view camera I haven't played with in a while, and would like to but its just so awkward to use anywhere but at the house. I admit I am a bit of a tinkerer and equipment does interest me, but its always for me secondary. I have a couple of cameras that are as old as I am and I my age thats saying something will all the gray hair. People that know me know why I have it grin. Its subject matter that gets me in the funk. I get tired of the same old same old. Lately I have been more interested in people, but models get expensive and I don't want to be the guy that annoys his friends with a camera. lol Fall usually helps. It passes or at least it always has in the past. Funny what triggers a new direction. In the past its been anything from just a landscape that I just happened upon, to what I call the lucky photo. Bored, totally uninspired and half thinking you get lucky and get one good one. Lo and behold its back to work again. ============================================================================ ================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.