Admittedly it’s been a little light around this website this week.  Frankly, I’ve been swamped.

Life does that to you.

As a photographers we have to find the time to manage how our lives can often interfere with our photographic workflow. We have to find balance.

Whether you think of photography as a hobby, obsession, or as a job life can still get “in the way”.

Professional photographers can get burned out too!

Even when I was working as a photographer I often got burned out.  It’s the whole “the cobbler’s kids don’t have shoes” thing.  I would spend all day behind the camera and the last thing I wanted to do was pick up the camera in my spare, or off, time.  I couldn’t find the energy to or inspiration to work on my personal projects.

It’s not an easy thing to deal with.

It can make you question your decisions and question how important photography can be, or should be, on your life.

This is natural and ultimately a decision that almost everyone has to go through from time to time.

That said…I feel it’s important, for me, to push through these “hard times” and force myself to get behind the camera and back in front of the computer to do my editing.

Staying inspired is something you should be doing for yourself.  It’s something you should be doing for your own personal growth, not just as a photographer or artist, but as a human being.

So how do you stay inspired?

I find that just getting started does the trick for me.  Lately it’s been the post processing and editing part that’s been neglected.  So yesterday, in some of the first “spare time” I’ve been able to find for myself in the past couple of months, I sat in front of my computer and just organized, edited, tagged, and processed some images.  It was enough to get me inspired to get back behind the camera and working again towards my goals.

How do you find the balance in life as a photographer, artist, human?

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