What I am doing and how I fix a lack of enthusiasm right now

Yesterday I released a new video on my YouTube channel

The channel is going great, counting over 3320 subscribers while I am writing this blog. And I continue to produce content every single day.

The real creative crisis doesn't exist: I can't afford it. And it would also be inadvisable to write about it.

But maybe it's the weather, maybe it's the heat... I feel a drop in enthusiasm. I feel weaker. I know it's normal, but it hasn't happened to me in over ten years.

I don't stop taking photographs every day, not this one, never this one. But I feel and want more. Maybe something different. I need support. Like the nice comment I received this afternoon from a subscriber to my YouTube channel. It seems little but it matters a lot.

Maybe the surrounding environment doesn't excite me.

Maybe it's right now that I'm regenerating myself.

And maybe it all ends tomorrow.

Maybe in a few hours I'll be back to work as before.

Yes, it is happening. To me, right now. But I know is temporary. And I know I will back stronger than before. I just need to change things. In particular:

A change of scenery can do wonders. I will explore a new part of the city.

I watched a video with Matt Stuart yesterday. It didn't cure me but somehow it helped me a little. He is a photographer different from me, also on the street we are not focused in the same subjects, but he is a nice guy and I appreciate his work and enthusiasm. To see other cool street photographers in action can help when we experience a dip in creative motivation.

As i said mine is not even a creative crisis, it is more smething that I do also cool shots, but I think: oh, yes, it is good and…I feel myself not that happy like usual. It is more that I want to make something different, something more rewarding. Maybe I need a new project right now. Or maybe not, maybe I need to travel. Or watching a porno. I don’t know…

Tomorrow I will grab my Rebel. Shooting with the DSLR changes the experience for sure and in new surroundings will be a total different thing.

Partially I know what is. It is more about the subject and topics. I don’t want to repeat the same. And many times street photography is about repeat-repeat-repeat. It is about knowing the place. We tend to go in the same spots, despite I am more an explorer than many street photographers. But I feel that I want to say something different.

The 70mm was a great add in the last period, showing me that is possible to propose a fresh proposal. But I want to see more different landscape. I want to observe and photographing a different urbanity. I want to have people distant, that they are not the predominant thing in the frame and rather accompany the composition.

Alex, that was an absolutely beautiful expression, verbally and graphically, of your most heartfelt feelings of your art, your passion and your soul. So inspirational and affirming. Bravo! YOU'RE DOING GREAT!

Yesterday I read that. And it was a nice injection of confidence. I needed this, so thanks Steven. And thanks to those buying my art on the shop. It is very important to me seeing people appreciating my work and the best way to do it is purchasing my art.

Today I will back on the street.