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If you know me, you know just how long I have been in a photographic rut. For proof just check out the EXIF information on most of the images posted on Behind the Lens lately!  It seems that I forgot one of the first rules of photography that I ever learnt.  Shoot projects - for some reason this simple rule really helps when you find yourself in a creative rut.  One of my first ever projects was “shooting churches”, I did that forever and I ended up with a very large number of images of churches from all over Ontario.

Recently, I’ve actually gone back to my church project in order to help break me out of my latest rut.

So if you find yourself in a rut, choose a photo project and get out there.  I promise that you’ll find that it will really help removing you from your rut, and you may just find something that you really enjoy.

Here’s a quote from Gertrude Stein, that I think applies to this topic,

“You have to know what you want to get.  But when you know that, let it take you.  And if it seems to take you off the track, don’t hold back, because perhaps that it instinctively where you want to be.  And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.”

Tell us about your latest photography projects.

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