Bouncing Back
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As I'm writing this, I'm working on more of my photography content that I've been wanting to share. I'm really glad to be working on things again. There's been this sense of anxiety I've had when I think about taking time to create or work on something related to the photographs I have. After writing my last blog post, it seemed to give me some clarity on what I want to focus on and what I should be taking time away from. I think this really helped me get back into my groove.
It's also helped me think a bit more about the kind of direction I want to be taking anything that I share with others on the internet. The format that I was sharing my photos through on Instagram just felt really... uninspired. And to be honest, it was. I look back at it and see that I was sharing photographs just to be sharing them to have them on my page. Am I proud of some of those pictures? For sure. Was I delivering it in a medium I felt was actually meaningful? Not at all.
That's where this blog kind of came from: my struggle to find a meaningful way to share photographs that I wanted to show others. As I develop this blog more, I'm going to be trying some different ways to combine the photographs I'm taking with the free-form writing I'm doing here. I'm really enjoying it so far, and it's made me want to get back to sharing my work again.
With that being said, I'll definitely still be posting my work on Instagram. The two previous "SUMMER 2023" posts that I made on my account were inspired by photo zines and the cover for the single, "OKRA," from Tyler, the Creator; plain, but still really cool. Things like that post will stick around, and hopefully be what I'm posting there the majority of the time. The post I made for Cleveland was also a post that I was really proud of. I'll be trying new ways of posting similar to that as well. Yeah.
Really loving the blog and writing my thoughts as they come to me. Gives me a peace to communicate how I feel, even if only a few people (or even none) give this a read. Cheers.