I’ve felt really uninspired with my photography lately. Maybe it’s due to weather (nothing pretty about the same two colors everywhere), maybe it’s because it’s January and while my heart wants snow, it’s 60 degrees outside and too hot for even a scarf.

Or maybe it’s because I’ve been pushing myself to only use fully manual mode and I’m always unsatisfied with my inability to get the shot right, even if it looks right on the screen. noob photographer remember? Or that I’m bored with taking pictures of moss and leaves.. maybe I’m craving something more.

Whatever the reason, I hadn’t picked up my camera in over a week.. which is completely unheard of for me.

And well, I’m in a mood today.. not sad.. a mood. You know, the kind of mood that makes you want to take up kickboxing? Yeah that kind of mood. And while photography normally would fix this, it wasn’t helping.

I know you guys are used to a inspirational post from me, but I don’t have one today, not that I know of anyways...

But I also had a conversation with someone today about even though we try to be real here, we still only show as much as we want people to see... so, in the attempt to be real..I’m sharing my bad mood. You guys have those some days right?

So, bad mood and all I forced myself on an adventure, completely uninspired to take photos of stuff I had absolutely no interest in in the moment. I actually forced myself even more. I decided since I was in such a sour mood, I would go

Fully Manual AND Not Look At The Screen After A Shot.

Why?

I don’t know maybe I was punishing myself.. or maybe I was just forcing myself to be in the moment more and concentrate on the shot at hand.

I hated all of them while taking them.. the photography walk did absolutely nothing for my mood.. so weird, I know.

Then I threw them on my computer and before looking told myself I would only give myself 1 min to edit all shots (1 min total and yes I set a timer) and then post them all. Most didn’t even get an edit, and then I uploaded them here...

And guess what?

I Loved Every Single One Of Them...

Some days suck, sometimes we get in moods, sometimes life doesn’t always seem so beautiful.. but we keep going, pushing ourselves.. and when we look back on those moments, we see the beauty we were missing all along.

Much Love,

Justine

_{Taken with fuji x-t2 with 35mm Lens}