I lost my Mojo
Most photographers go through this, where they do not have the creative energy to shoot or find something we want to shoot.
But that’s ok unless you are a working photographer and rely on this to pay for things, even working photographers it becomes very same, same conveyor belt industry.
What do we do?
Take a break from it all, explore new challenges, reignite that passion for creative photography and come back to it. This is exactly what I have done. My world, as insignificant as it is, has had its challenges personally. I’m not going to go over them here, but I have made changes, changes to me and how I do things and how I approach things. Hopefully, this will make me a better person going forward, not necessarily a better photographer. Even if I could be a different photographer, then that’s good in my world.
“New Zealanders can travel within New Zealand”
Globally we all have been in the same boat with the pandemic of COVID 19, so most people, no just photographers, have had a good break. Here in New Zealand, we have been extremely fortunate and have had lockdowns but not to the degree of most countries, and as a small island nation, we could quickly enjoy our freedom and travel within New Zealand.
The last trip that I took was July 2020, and I spent one week touring the south island in a rented campervan.
Whist I was full of the flu ( not Covid), I still managed to capture some amazing scenes. The reality of travelling around with deserted iconic NZ locations was at times surreal, but in a bid to promote staycations, campervan companies had reduced rates on their fleet. I jumped at this opportunity and headed south via Queenstown.
Hoar frost was spectacular to see, and I took these images just outside Twizel. At midday, it was still -7, and everything was frozen and magical but bitterly cold.
Lake Tasman in the Mount Cook national park is one of NZ’s iconic locations and a hot spot for visiting tourists. Extraordinary to have a place for myself, and the sound of silence is quite frightening and daunting.
Mount Sunday
I visited areas that I haven’t been to before and whilst driving some nearly 3000 km, and I should have spent more time researching areas and staying longer.