Got to keep moving. Rust never sleeps. Stop and the rust will get you. Can feel it creeping up on you sometimes, accompanied by inertia and an indeterminable dissatisfaction. You catch yourself shaking your fist at all your photos, you know it's time to break out the sledgehammer and WD-40.
Time to do something new, something different, something more. To step up your game and play for higher stakes. Good luck with the what and how of that.
Been kicking around the bones of an idea for a while now, seems like a good time to see if any of y'all are interested in helping flesh it out. So here goes nothing.
Normally we're all competing for a slice of the same rewards pool, which is a rather zero-sum setup that doesn't always make for the most bonhomie atmosphere. It don't have to be all competition though, why not leverage the global network we have at our fingertips to collaborate? Use Hive to create something larger than any one of us. My initial thought was use Hive to put together some (or many) sort of collective photo book or photo project, possibly with an eye towards submitting it to some of the zillion photo contests out there. I'm primarily interested in seeing what we could create but presenting the projects somewhere outside the blockchain would be an easy way to get Hive some good publicity.
With so many great photographers on here, doing such a range of photography, don't think we have to worry about restricting ourselves to a single topic or format. So who's down for a little group work? Got any ideas for topics?
At the end of the day I'd like for my photography to help make the world a better or at least more interesting place. With the community(s) we have on here it shouldn't be too difficult to use photography to bring people together. This being the era of the 24-hour bad news cycle, we could all probably use a little more of that.
All photos from my visit to St. Louis in October. 