I have a question for any photographers who primarily work outdoors: landscapes, street, urban, etc.
What do you do when you can’t get outside to make new images?
In the northeastern US (and other parts of the country), it’s been extremely cold for the past week or more. Where I live, temperatures have hovered in the single digits and dipped below 0 Fahrenheit. I enjoy photographing in bad weather, but this kind of cold puts real limits on how long I want to be outside.
Photography is my escape from the daily grind.
When I can’t get outdoors with a camera, I start looking for other ways to relax. One thing I’ve found myself doing lately is going back through my catalog to revisit images that didn’t catch my attention when I first imported them.
At the time, there may have been other images that held my interest. Or maybe I couldn’t quite find an edit that felt right. But returning months or even years later often reveals photographs that feel different now, or at least invite a second look.
I am finding that I don’t always have to make new images to enjoy this process.
There’s value in going back to images that didn’t make the cut, spending time with them, thinking about what I might approach differently, and noticing what catches my attention now. It’s a quiet way of staying connected to the work, and it shapes what I’ll look for the next time I’m out with a camera.
When it warms up. Just a little.
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