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  | 04 August 2012 04:09 |
| DCox Photographer  Location United Kingdom Northamptonshire | I tend to shoot at least a couple of times a week..... But I just havent for nearly 2 months. I have been away on family holiday and been busy when I have come back and just feel a lethergy towards my camera. I have done lots of other stuff: sailing, cycling, and living but just have had no urge to pick up my camera (I even carried it abroad for 2 weeks without a single click) I have thought about pictures and even got some shots and ideas......but no wish to pick up a camera A happy drought is so much better than when you cant create a decent shot but there is a small element of feeling weird about it. I have shot solidly for 5 years or so I think with a break when the kids were small. How do people feel about droughts: happy or not? Dom |
| 04 August 2012 04:28 |
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| Socialdisaster Photographer  Location United Kingdom Cambridgeshire Cambridge |  Quote from DCoxHow do people feel about droughts: happy or not? They happen, I don't think it's a happy or not thing, it just is. |
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| No weddings, no kids - Léon | ||
 | 04 August 2012 05:35 |
| JenSomerfield Model  Location United Kingdom Bristol Plymouth (holiday) / Bristol (term) | I'm confident it'll pass  |
 | 04 August 2012 13:44 |
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| RedChecker Photographer  Location United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Stoke Mandeville | My most creative six months in 2010 were after a six month sabbatical. | |
| If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit | ||
| 05 August 2012 08:08 |
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| sexyswindler Model  Location United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes | Well when it passes Dom, get your ass in to gear and contact me |
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| Follow me :) @aimee_curry | ||
| 05 August 2012 13:35 |
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| ellieellis Photographer  Location United Kingdom Somerset Taunton | I couldn't shoot for about 3 months end of last year, I felt it gave me time to reflect on what I was shooting, why I was shooting and the direction I wanted to go, when and only when I felt ready to come back I did so with a bang, I think its definitely normal to have a dry spell |
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| A woman who spends time with a photographer, always ends up exposed! | ||
| 06 August 2012 06:35 |
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| Alan_Jay Photographer  Location United Kingdom South Yorkshire | I go through similar phases and seem to have to make more of an effort to get out of them as I get older. I made a concious decision to take a break from fetish stuff as it was feeling stale, and then didn't do any of the projects I'd been putting off. I've literally just contacted a model in order to complete one of them, so I'm sure you too will find new enthusiasm soon. |
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| You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a motorbike and that's pretty close! :o) | ||
| 06 August 2012 18:41 |
| DCox Photographer  Location United Kingdom Northamptonshire | I guess I dont have a lack of enthusiasm for photography but just have spent a lot of time sailing and doing family stuff. I only took up sailing a year or so ago and I found I have just been doing it a lot over the last 2 months....there is tonnes of technical stuff to learn and skills to master...my energy space is filled with it...plus I have a much better core body strength than I get from photography!! plus I actually won a race!!! and its so much easier to judge whether you are doing well in sailing......if you are crap u sail slowly. In photography u have to know the value of your own work.....bad or good. The benchmark is easier in sailing! I will get back to it......Im thinking that if someone bought me a D800 my interest would be right back there  |
| 12 August 2012 18:49 |
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| diipii Photographer Location United Kingdom Worcestershire | Me too. Great isn't it ??? | |
| It only happens all the time. | ||
| 12 August 2012 19:10 |
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| stolenfaces Photographer  Location United Kingdom London West London | Surely a photographer who doesn't take photos is (by definition) a guy with camera. I really can't conceive of as much as a week without taking photos. I don't think that in 30 years, a week has passed when I haven't photographed something |
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| Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another... | ||
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