I could not have seen this article at a better time, I am currently in an art mental block set up by one person. Myself. Last year I was taking photos left and right and into the summer…until someone close to be died on August 20th, 2011. It wasn’t that my life wasn’t filled with inspiration anymore it was quite the opposite, my house of inspiration was on fire. It was so bright and so hot I could feel it miles away.

I was just too scared to go inside.

All the things I had loved so much went to waste, I shunned them, I locked them in a box in my heart. All of the photos that had once made me so proud made me ashamed to even look at them. The simple camera I had once seen as the doorway to my soul, now seemed to be the portal into a nightmare. I had accepted its limited properties, but now, I can only see what it isn’t and what it will never do.

Thank you for this, this was exactly what I needed.

<3 Felicity

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Reading this article really hit me, not so the to-do-list but visiting your site and gallery. During the past few months I have done some experiments, just trying to capture feelings of a certain moment, without caring much traditional rules of photography. Eg. cars passing by in the night using shutter speeds like 1/2″ second and camera handheld. Most shots can be deleted right away, but some are awesome. I feel like getting to a higher level in some difficult game. This was before reading Eva’s article, but now I’m encouraged to push even further.

I remember a discussion in one photography forum sometimes ago, people presenting their pictures about hockey. Most of the photos were technically good, some excellent, all taken with high quality (= expensive) equipment. Only it was sad that the discussion was about the speed of AF and sharpness and such. Why. Because all of the photos were dull, boring, none was such that I could imagine hanging on my wall. Hockey is a game of speed, fast movements, action. None of the pictures could give this impression, they were all frozen. I hope I can present some day a hockey photo that gives the feeling of action.