I have been photographing for a few years now (more than 10) and I am feeling a shift in my photography - I love how I find myself in one of two states - either in flow and feeling excited and inspired by my photography efforts, or in some state of disquiet, dissatisfaction or generally uninspired. I seem to gravitate to these two states which seems very odd, but true.

I will trundle along in a state of disquiet or lacking inspiration when suddenly it is like a light bulb turning on and I feel myself slip into flow (I wrote about flow here). What I don’t always recognize is that there is a process that I go through to enter flow and part of that is getting focused on the present moment and letting all expectations and criticisms fade into the background. I can’t force this to happen, but when I let go and slide into it - magic!