Hello!

I’am going to start today by asking, “How are you?”. Let’s break that myth that we are living the perfect life we portray in our photos. We all deal with things that make us all imperfect.

It sometimes is difficult to cope with real creativity and run in the game of analytics. I’m sorry social media took over your brain at some point!

And sometimes it’s not about the social media or the fomo of not taking part in a photography challenge, it’s something so personal and so quiet.

I do deal with a lot of personal difficulties (and by personal I mean, me. Just me and my brain). And that often shows up in how my creative brain works. It’s a relationship with expectations and reinventing and love and hate, doubt…

If you have been following my Instagram, my Morning Finds was a happy place where I photograph simple things I see during the morning. And then, just as when I thought I was finding happiness in photographing those simple things with my iPhone, it struck me. What is the real meaning? What is my quest?

When the thought of why comes in, the meaning becomes more important than anything else.

When I get to point like that, I sit, take a break and look back to where and how it all began. Maybe it doesn’t interest me anymore or I drifted to being in the social game. Either isn’t healthy and it needs a rework.

Taking time to learn from yourself as to what you are looking for in your own craft is the best way to keep that relationship from sinking.

At this point, my meaning lies in photographing memories, just like the photo of my grandfather’s hands that talks so much about his love for his wife. That photo was not just memorable for me but people who followed me then, connected to it, making it a hero photo of my identity.

I’am not leaving the social game, no one needs to! But pausing, looking back and forward only helps you find the meaning of what you want to do today.

No one can teach this, no one can force this. You only practice this for keeping the relationship alive with your craft and blossom that love into meaningful memories for you and your viewers.

With that, I guess we have had a heavy talk! but I hope a meaningful one.

Leaving a comment below helps us communicate more. And communication helps in growth, both for me and you. I hope to hear from you, and how you keep it alive, creatively.

Lots of love,

Indu.