photo 1. Covered Bridge at Petersen Arboretum

Covered Bridge at Petersen Arboretum.  Alpine UT    

     

   

  

  

     My resolution for this year is to post at least one picture each day.  Ideally they will be taken and posted on the same day, but some days may end up a bit off.  Likewise, with this photo blog I will begin adding pictures from the past and post dating them, as best I can, as a means of sharing and cataloging my image library.  

     I did something like this several years ago and it was very healthy for me to have to come up with something each day.  Some days were not exactly inspirational, however, I found the process of doing it every day facilitated my eyes to be more inspired.   Whether the business end of my photography is fast or slow, it always behooves me to make some time to pursue something just for inspiration.  Especially, when I am not feeling very inspired.  One of my favorite quotes about inspiration comes from the painter and photographer Chuck Close:

     "The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.  If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

     So it is with this spirit of just showing up and getting to work that I went for a walk at dusk after a rather uninspiring sunset and managed to come up with this image.  I'm not sure that it is super inspiring, but it will do for today.