So we are getting into 2025 pretty fast. I haven’t had enough time to actually get out and get a good few hours spent on simply photographing. And if there was time I somehow managed to ruin it without ever getting out at all. I sometimes wonder why?
Why do I ruin every chance at getting a beautiful sunset or other chances to end up with some new photo’s for my site?
First off, I just haven’t felt up to going out and driving a hour or longer to get to a good site. It feels like in dark winter times my energy just fades even faster then in summer. I’m like a hedgehog in hibernation, all rolled up in a ball comfortable and warm in my bed. And the times that I don’t have to get up early to work I use to get just a little more sleep only to wake up and feel like I’ve wasted my morning. While in fact I really feel like I needed the rest. Maybe I need to go to bed earlier but between work, daily chores and sport I don,t feel like there any extra time in the day. This will probably be a problem that will only solve itself when I get to retirement. But I still have a few odd twenty years to go until I get there if I make it at all. So I should just try to distribute my energy and see if I can plan ahead a little better for my upcoming trips.
Second, maybe I should aim a little less high, meaning don’t stare at locations where I would need to drive a good two hours to get some nice photo’s. There’s always the pressure of finding great photo locations and making even greater pics than the examples you see on flickr. It’s just a shame don’t live in an place where there’s magnificent nature or has any pretty seascapes but it’s not that bad. I just need to look more closely. Or really try to reserve a special day when I do go out and get to a more distant location.That’s where the early up get’s into the picture again. It all sounds so simple. And really it is but every photographer probably dealt with these things and lost inspiration and finding themselves pretty unreproductive at times.
I wonder what other photographers do to get rid of these periods of passivity?
Third thing is, I’m going to try something new. I’m going to not take so much crap with me any more. Just one camera and one goal a time. Yeah,that’s a hoot, I will put in my infrared camera and my normal camera in my back pack and think,well hey,it fits, so what the heck. And I usually leave with both camera’s safe in my back pack. And filters and tripod and whatnot. But in my own defense, I am saving up for a mini tripod to limit the weight. I’ve been feeling it in my back and shoulders going on long walks so I need to change something.
I try and try but still… This morning I got up,before sunset mind you. But while being late driving to my location,really close by,like a ten minute drive, I managed to be late.
There was a bit of pink light and a nice red sun but when I was where I wanted to be, the moment was gone and the sun was already very bright. Just my luck, but I did get out!
And that’s a lot said, maybe next time,read next month, I can do better. No ,I WILL do better! But for now, here are some pics I managed to make, with both my camera’s.
