Taking time to play

Too often we become so immersed in creating “serious” art or portfolio quality images that we lose the joy and the sense of fun that made us pick up a camera to begin with. It is important to take time for personal projects or to just have fun with your camera to ground yourself and remember why you love photography.

I started dabbling with intentional camera movement (ICM) photography off/on a few years ago as a way to blow off some creative steam and just play with photos. Most of the ICM images I make end up in the trash bin having never seeing the light of day. This isn’t because they don’t meet some self-imposed standard but because they were simply playthings taking meant to just have a bit of fun with. But, every once in a while, I’ll look at some of these images and think, “That’s not too shabby for just been messing around!”.