Photographers Block

I am in the process of busting a four-month-long case of photographer's block. Through the summer I have been distracted by commercial fishing and a whole bunch of other things. Put this on top of difficulties stemming from a transitioned from assignment work to a largely personal project based work.

For me, photography is a language. It is a way of communicating. If you don't use this language every day, you get rusty. The way I picked up a proficiency in photography was to practice every day. For a period of years I always had a camera slung on my shoulder. In the past few years I have fell out of that practice. This poses a problem for someone that bills himself as a street photographer. For me, street photography means capturing slice of light photographs of everyday activities.

The photo above was made from from having a camera on me when I was walking to the grocery store. This is the back side of a pair of refrigeration boxes on the back side of a local grocery store. The time to make a photo like this is when you see it. I am glad I shot this picture when I did. I drove by this scene today and it wasn't there anymore. The cables were not wrapped the same way and that spoiled the "face in object" of the photo.