Staying inspired can be a really hard thing to do as easy as it sounds. Most artists and photographers like to use inspiration to create their piece or pieces. Over the winter is when I am least inspired. With never being out and not seeing the world, its nature, et cetera. So here are some simple ideas to help you stay inspired even if it is not winter!
1. Music. Sometimes a title of the song you are listening to or a line in the song will suddenly inspire you. This happens to me a lot. I will just be sitting there listening to music when suddenly BOOM an idea will come right out of no where.
2. Tumblr or WeHeartIt.com. Those two sites are full of inspiration given the correct search tag. As an everyday user on both sites (I am pretty much addicted) I often find a bunch of inspiration. Not even the photo's sometimes but the quotes. Kind of like today I had come across a quote that said "Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well." That inspired me and I am actually hoping to create a piece to go along with that quote.
3. Movies and Books. I for one recently read "The Nine Lives Of Chloe King" it was a fantastic book along with a nice television series (I watched a whole season in one day!) It inspired me. Maybe not to go out and create something but I have a strong feeling that someday in the future I would like to create a series like that too. Books inspire a lot of artists I have come to realize, most photographers create series based upon books or movies. So try that!
4. Browse through your favorite artists work. Annie Leibovitz, Brooke Shaden, Karrah Kob,us and, many more inspire me often! Those are three of my favorite artists personally. I could spend hours looking through their works and just constantly feel inspired or just become mesmerized by their work as usual, Haha! Although you don't want to pull to much from other artists work it could turn out similar to their original concept and that would not be good.
If I am being honest I don't have much trouble with inspiration, When I first started photography I did. Since then I have created my own path I inspire myself. The world around me, people in my life, my dreams and nightmares. I pull from my mind and that's good to do to. Sometimes you might just need to sit down and sketch out an idea or go through names of crayon colors (that's helped me come up with some of my titles before!) things like that. Everyone is inspired differently and as said before you want to create original pieces and not have your work looking like someone elses. Keep it up and stay inspired!
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