{"id":1824,"date":"2009-08-03T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2009-08-03T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:00:56","slug":"13-tips-for-staying-motivated-in-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/13-tips-for-staying-motivated-in-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Tips for Staying Motivated in Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at my Flickr stream at the moment, I see mainly Polaroid photos and experiments with pinhole camera obscuras. When I lose my Phojo, I start experimenting.\u00a0 Here is a quote from the website below.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here\u2019s a common story: one day you become enthusiastic about photography, and find yourself jumping at every opportunity to take photos and to improve your work. You keep this up for a while, but slowly the enthusiasm you once had starts to fade. You start feeling like you\u2019ve stagnated in your growth, and that you\u2019re just doing the same old thing, over and over again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How can you rekindle the passion you once had for photography? If you haven\u2019t hit the wall yet, how can you avoid running into it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"More, Filament on fire! by norbography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/2256786795\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2319\/2256786795_b53e790a69.jpg\" alt=\"More, Filament on fire!\" width=\"500\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? Yes, it does to me. I hear people say it all the time. People lose their Phojo. Well check out the link below, Michael Zhang has some very good ideas.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petapixel.com\/2009\/07\/31\/13-tips-for-staying-motivated-in-photography\/\" target=\"blank\">13 Tips for Staying Motivated in Photography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at my Flickr stream at the moment, I see mainly Polaroid photos and experiments with pinhole camera obscuras. When I lose my Phojo, I start experimenting.\u00a0 Here is a quote from the website below. Here\u2019s a common story: one day you become enthusiastic about photography, and find yourself jumping at every opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[693,840],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-motivation","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-tq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}