The Photographer's Prayer

With the same old camera, the same old lens and the same old walk, please let me encounter something new or different today. Well, I've never seen this before, probably not even a law against it yet.

I'm dumb, I don't get what is so strange. Fully wrapped up on the beach? Go to a beach in Britain. Cycling with a mask? See it all the time. Cycling on the beach? Hard work but not all that weird.

I have never seen anyone riding a bike on the beach around here.

Biking on the beach is nothing unusual around where I live. Doing so on an electric bike isn't something I've seen too often though:

With the same old camera, the same old lens and the same old walk, please let me encounter something new or different today. Well, I've never seen this before, probably not even a law against it yet.

It's funny. My motivation lately has come from passing many of the same scenes for the last 30 years and assuming nothing different is going to happen. So, the challenge and fun for me is to find personal inspiration and/or a new angle (in its multiple senses) from which to photograph.

I'm struggling, I've just completed a 'photo per week' (in the Mirrorless Monday thread), which was a personal goal, but I feel like I've about exhausted my little corner of the countryside.

 

Time to try something new, I fancy having a go at more macro and creative lighting, perhaps.

 

Not about to try a 'photo per day' effort, though 365 photos of cows could actually be a good subject!

 

Photographically, I do sometimes miss living in a city ..

I can't seem to stop, It's September 1 and I'm just getting around to editing mid July. And this is after the cancelation of all our big events.

The bike on a beach isn't the unusual part.

Why is the cyclist dressed as a frog?

Why is the cyclist dressed as a frog?

Mask and a helmet...this is California.

Mask and a helmet...

This is also smart and safe.

Safe is not always Smart.

God, allow my senses to be at their strongest

let my equipment not fail me

and let my mind work

to the betterment of my craft

 

Edited September 3, 2020 by michaellinder

God, allow my senses to be at their strongest

let my equipment not fail me

and let my mind work

to the betterment of my craft

Photography prayer or sex prayer? ;)

I'm struggling, I've just completed a 'photo per week' (in the Mirrorless Monday thread), which was a personal goal, but I feel like I've about exhausted my little corner of the countryside.

 

Time to try something new, I fancy having a go at more macro and creative lighting, perhaps.

 

Not about to try a 'photo per day' effort, though 365 photos of cows could actually be a good subject!

 

Photographically, I do sometimes miss living in a city ..

Same here, hit a bit of dry spell myself. If it some consolation for you, living in big city doesn't help much.

Photography prayer or sex prayer? ;)

 

At my age, definitely photography ! What don't ache, don't work.