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Mental Mosaic: Even Home is a Travel Destination
My name is Tui Snider. I'm a travel writer and photographer whose blog describes fun things to see and do in Texas and beyond. Here, you will get the personal side of my travels, with lots of photos, too.
I also write for Discovering Dallas - Fort Worth, a site full of tips for fun things to see and do in north Texas.
If you would like to know more, check out my Contact/Bio or send an email to tui [at] mentalmosaic [dot] com.
Comments are welcome. I would love to hear from you!
So true. I saw a saying one time. It read:
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got, and you’ll always feel what you always felt.
In order to create we need to step outside our comfort level and take a different direction with the ordinary things in our lives. Sometimes it is the simplest thing that gets us moving in creative directions.
An example for you.
I used to love photography and taught myself to use an SLR that had only manual settings. I always wanted to take a course but over the years while raising kids I resorted to just snapshots. I did try to make most of them somewhat nice photos but eventually the creative slant went away and I took less and less pictures. Then one day online I saw a community in Live Journal. It was actually started by a 16 year old girl. It was called 100 Snapshots. It was a list of words and you were supposed to take a picture for each word. It not only got me taking photos again, but it changed how I looked at things. It was a great exercise (one that I still need to finish…I think I have 13 left) and totally spurred me to recreating the photographer in me.
I like the saying you mention in your comment. Kinda reminds me of Einstein’s definition of insanity. I’m paraphrasing, but it’s something like: ‘If you keep doing the same thing while expecting different results.’
100 Snapshots sounds fun. One of my goals is to learn more about the mechanics of photography, since taking photos brings me so much delight. It has a way of snapping me right into the moment. I feel more alert to the world when I have a camera in hand.
So how are you feeling now about your photography?
Thanks for commenting! ~Tui