Personal distractions
I know this may sound a little strange to some of you but after some time of being in a funk, I'll try most anything now.
My life has been in a tumble in the past months, I lost my father of 81yrs back in November and that was a difficult thing being that I had already lost my mother years ago. Being over whelmed with greif and depression I have had some difficulty getting back into the game of being inspired to pick up my camera and do anything creative. As if that wasnt enough to throw me into a funk, my sister whom I am very close to was diagnoised with stage 4a cerival cancer and she just had her hysterectomy this week and my brother who has diabetes is having some medical problems with his heart and they are running a zillion tests on him. I am a mother of five children and I am so used to be active and shaking things off so easily. But I fee like i'm under a truck that is stoping me from doing what I love. My photography was not only an outlet but a great extra income for my family. Now I am blocked and I sincerely cannot focus on building back up where I was before. I realize it would take time, but I thought maybe you could all send a tad bit of your creative energys my way and help me regain my inspiration. Let me hear your stories of how you deal with personal distractions and how your inspire yourself to get back on track. This isnt something that I've ever seen discussed before, but I know that some of you have to deal with things that throw you off. So please, inspire me...
My life has been in a tumble in the past months, I lost my father of 81yrs back in November and that was a difficult thing being that I had already lost my mother years ago. Being over whelmed with greif and depression I have had some difficulty getting back into the game of being inspired to pick up my camera and do anything creative. As if that wasnt enough to throw me into a funk, my sister whom I am very close to was diagnoised with stage 4a cerival cancer and she just had her hysterectomy this week and my brother who has diabetes is having some medical problems with his heart and they are running a zillion tests on him. I am a mother of five children and I am so used to be active and shaking things off so easily. But I fee like i'm under a truck that is stoping me from doing what I love. My photography was not only an outlet but a great extra income for my family. Now I am blocked and I sincerely cannot focus on building back up where I was before. I realize it would take time, but I thought maybe you could all send a tad bit of your creative energys my way and help me regain my inspiration. Let me hear your stories of how you deal with personal distractions and how your inspire yourself to get back on track. This isnt something that I've ever seen discussed before, but I know that some of you have to deal with things that throw you off. So please, inspire me...
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Permalink Reply by Jamie on -
I'm in also!
Charles, have you ever tried to park at that Panera? Impossible!
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on -
Rev, check the LPC anniversary thread for meet up info. Also give the round 3 portrait project thread a look and sign up!
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Permalink Reply by Jamie on
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I can sympathize with you, Rev, on needing inspiration. I've been circling back to this mental block on putting together a new portfolio and offering it on a fine art database. I've got all the time in the world since I work free-lance and it hasn't picked back up yet, but I get practically nothing done.
I wonder sometimes if I really have much in common with the majority of the LPC folks since I know practically nothing about digital photography and aren't commercially inclined, but I've been so isolated lately that I'm pretty much over that mental hump! I'm looking forward to the LPC anniversary gig just to be around photo people again, even if I only sit and listen the whole time.
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