Photographer and author David duChemin recently released three ebooks targeted toward helping beginner-to-intermediate photographers. Two ebooks cover basic photography principles and the third focuses on composition. I plan to purchase one entitled “10″ to test a recent discovery. I discovered that I concentrate better and speed-read less when I read a book on my [...]
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Art, rejection, and infinite possibilities
“Rejection is never pleasant,” writes Joanne Mattera in her Art Blog, “but until you get over it, you can never move on. Fortunately, you do develop a callus over the soft spot.” While I didn’t know the work of Mattera when I read this quote, her article resonated with me. Recently, unknown virtual “people” at [...]
Rituals in creativity
My research into the creative process has yielded some relief, but more questions. I have collected more books about creativity. The books have scattered over the house. And yet, fear of something holds me back. “No” remains my first response to almost everything. Twyla Tharp believes that it’s vital to “establish some rituals — automatic [...]
"Why do people NOT create or innovate?"
Three sandhill cranes leave Cook Inlet, with the Kenai mountain range shrouded by clouds, Alaska “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” – A. A. Milne I think of this quote each time I walk into my office. To do so I must step over piles of [...]
Women and unmet or virtual friends
Without a fair statistical sample of men and women, I only can generalize and agree with Carolyn Heilbrun. She writes, “Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged–desires that now seem possible. [...]
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Stuck? Read "Monday Morning Motivators"
A friend knows of my new (but late-in-life) creative efforts. Linda sent me a link to Eric Maisel’s Creativity Central, where the most recent Monday Morning Motivators (to Slay Your Creative Dragons) contribution is entitled Passion, by CJ Lyons. I note it here as my own reminder that my search is a universal one. Lyons [...]
Good grief, I won something
‘Twas just a wee photo challenge – flowers in a vase. And these weren’t even technically in a vase; rather, the tulips (image, far left) grew from bulbs in the vase. Still, apparently the challenge winner won a spot on the RedBubble home page. That short appearance resulted in more than 2,000 hits or views [...]