First of all: The deadline for the challenge has been postponed to the end of next week, the new date hence being 28th of this month. There’s two perfectly sincere reasons for that: 1) All three of us are naturally running late with our own entries. 2) We want to avoid the humiliating situation, where we wake up to notice no one else took part to our play. This way we’ll have time to harass and bribe more people to join in.

Meanwhile I’ll bluff with a new post.

The cyclic nature of photography has been discussed here before and no wonder, it’s probably familiar  feeling for everyone taking photos. For me the different phases are usually related with learning new things. When I learn, I’m inspired. Learning gives one a sensation of progress while it also show’s you how much one just doesn’t know. I’m still quite young and new to this trade, so for long the learning came naturally: there were always more talented people around and all I needed to do was to keep my eyes open and suck every piece of knowledge I could possibly muster. Lately, however, I feel like I’ve been in a more solitary place photography-wise. I haven’t interacted with people too much and it’s pretty sad. I’ve just taken the same photos and done the same post-processing tricks all over again for too long. I haven’t assessed my weaknesses and worked on them, just done things I know I can somehow handle. The progress is hard alone, no one is giving any directions, one just has to guide oneself. But how the hell am I supposed to know what’s good? Although I should know, right?

This all being said, I’ve been wanting to do something with completely different feel. Something quite personal and in a non-ironic manner (you know: acting as if you actually gave something of yourself away when it’s actually obvious you didn’t. That’s how I roll). Also I’ve been sick with all the contrast in my  photos. These images may be a fumble towards something different.

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