Personal ‘wows’

I have been working with a borrowed macro lens this week that is going back to its owner soon. Hence this abundance in macro photography here. I’m enjoying it more than I expected and it pleases me to play with different forms and styles. I see great limitations to my craft here though – on the macro front – and great possibilities at the same time for dreamy illustrative work and wall art.

This exercise, as usually, is prompting a few conversations in my head about personal ‘wows’ that perhaps are more derailing than demanding. But then.. a long time ago I complained about my inability to deal with disappointments in the process of creation so I’m on a mission again.. of finding balance and an honest appraisal of my skills.

And as always, I think about consumerism and in this case about borrowing things.. or rather having to return things quickly. I’ll be honest. I do not like borrowing things – mainly because my children destroy things and then I end up paying for them anyway as I do not like returning items with scribbles on, dolls with hair-cuts, broken lenses.. you get the gist. Well… in this case… the lens needs to be returned soon and I am trying to be very careful and what I have noticed that out of this borrowing creative abundance flows and it makes me happy. I even wonder if I should be borrowing pens.. would I write more then as long as the pen has a return date on.

How have you been lately?

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