Within me a lunatic sings

So I was off on a shoot all this week interstate. It was challenging, and some of the requirements were tough to hit, what with weather, schedules and birds hitting planes etc. But at the end of each day when I sat scrolling through the days stills and marking go takes, I was genuinely happy to be doing what I do for a living.

Got me thinking, for the longest time I had lost all direction with photography, almost like I had lost the ability to be creative. Call it photographers block if you will, it just felt like something I used to enjoy and was fairly decent at, had suddenly become almost impossible to do. It's not like you can simply Google - How to be creative? 

I think its a bit like how artists think that having a muse is some sort of magic bullet to creativity. It isn't, sort of, I think that sometimes what you need to be creative is to have support. Sometimes its support from people who know more than you and give you advice, opinions, suggestions. Other times I think it is just a simple matter of having someone who supports you no questions asked, just the very fact that they are there for you sets you up in a way that you can focus on doing what you love, creating. Without that support, no matter how many self help books you read, or positive affirmations you speak, at the end of the day, if you don't feel like you have unquestioning support your not going to be able to really relax and just make stuff.

Kinda lucky these days that I have a lot of support from a bunch of really great human beings. Its kind of hard to not want to get out there and just make stuff, when your so positive.