This Weekend

[wlotus]

On Friday, I...

Hung out in a local Starbucks for several hours with Ms. T and LB, a fellow photographer. We shared work war stories (past job for me, hallelujah, as the current job still suits me just fine), teased one another, and had an uproariously good time.

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[syven]

I haven't gone out with my DSLR since hubby deployed. I hung it up and, gods, I can glance at the case but I can't pick it up. I don't know why. I just know that every time I look at it, I feel... pressured, somehow. I'm a huge perfectionist and I don't know what happened to my confidence with the camera. I look at that case and think everything I shoot is going to be rubbish so why bother.

[wlotus]

I understand all too well. I'll only end up shooting the same, old stuff, anyway. That's boring. My photos don't "pop" like [insert name here]'s do. And so on, and so on, and so on...

At the beginning of the summer, after singing that song to myself ad nauseam, I decided I am going shoot, damn it, and I am going to enjoy it. I am not going to try to make every photo into a masterpiece. I am not going to try to prove to myself I have talent. I am just going to shoot for the love of shooting, like I used to do. So that is what I've been focusing on doing this summer. It's not easy to let the pressure off myself, but it's a heck of a lot easier to breathe, at least. :-)

[acoustics1220]

Your weekend sounds fantastic! Go you! And that photo of your eye is AMAZING. Go YOU!