Surprisingly, I haven’t found much inspiration in a long time to take photos. I can’t blame it on not having my DSLR. I took plenty of photos when in Japan. I think I just ran out of inspiration when everything I did was some side hustle or another. It took a lot of fun out of just existing in the world and absorbing it, rather than looking at everything as ‘how do I frame this?’. I still do that, I just don’t usually find the need to grab my phone out of my pocket to actually act on that question. I need to. I truly need to get back into it. To what end, I’m not sure, but I think maybe just for me. I can share here, but I don’t have to make it into a business model. Not yet anyways. Or else I’ll just find the process frustrating and sad.
These are shots from a variety of places in the Netherlands. Primarily Amsterdam, but there’s one from Amstelveen and another from the seaside near The Hague.
I think I have some work to do on my mental health. Reframing my perspective of art and photography in the world at large. That capturing the life around me doesn’t have to be yet another money grab but instead an expression of joy, or curiosity, or interest.
More people can probably benefit from that shift in perspective. Where everything doesn’t need to be a side hustle and that they can have a hobby for the enjoyment of having a hobby. Grant it, I do have an Amazon gift list link in my copyright tag specifically so that if folk want to send me stuff in lieu of payment for reading my reviews/stories/looking through and probably saving my art, then they can, but outside of today’s mention of that fact, I’m not going to go begging for you to pay me for my time and effort. I want to actually rebuild my love of writing, drawing, photography from the heartache I fell into between 2020 and 2024 when I had pretty bad burn out from trying to make these things I’m good at become my way of making money. It didn’t work and I felt like I wasn’t good enough and you know how that goes.
Now we heal. Now we come back to why we learned these skills in the first place. Not as a money scheme, but as an expression of our inner self. And I am healing.
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