From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Finding inspiration

Finding inspiration

- Everybody in every creative discipline needs to be inspired. Now I can find myself talking myself out of this inspiration idea sometimes and that's because I feel like, "Well, now if I was really a good photographer, "I wouldn't need to go somewhere else "to get inspired, I would just have it inside me." Ah, why am I so important that I feel like I should be this never-ending font of inspiration, that's not true. Everybody needs to be inspired and this week on "The Practicing Photographer" I want to talk about some simple ways that you can get your creative juices flowing again. If you feel like you're not sure why you should bother to go take pictures, if you feel like you're in a rut, if you feel like you've only been shooting boring images, if you feel like you can't imagine what a good image might be, then you need some inspiration. And the easiest way to get that is with what I've got sitting right here in front of me, photo books, books by the great photographers or even the…

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