As photographers and creatives, we can sometimes find ourselves in a bit of a rut. Other areas of our lives can become complicated or difficult and our mental health can take a hit. This can all have a negative impact on our creativity. We can find we have stopped picking up our camera completely and when we decide we want to start creating again, we can feel a bit lost and unsure how to get back into it. Especially if the break has been over several weeks or months. Our confidence, motivation and inspiration might be lacking. I have personally found myself in this situation before so I wanted to share with you some ideas that have helped me and can hopefully help you to rediscover your photography joy.

Next up in our month of genre sampling was portraits. Portraits seem like an easy week since isn't that how we all start out in photography - taking pictures of people? Our p52 group is so diverse, though, that a big percentage of us never point our camera at people, instead preferring nature as our subjects. You'll see some kept this theme going and opted to use animals as subjects instead.

Since we are only focusing on the genre for a single week this year, we didn't dive deep into portraits, allowing the participant to choose which style of portraiture they wanted to focus on instead. You'll see a range from traditional to environmental to conceptual and even veering into the scary waters of (gasp) self portraits.

Which style of portraiture is your favorite? Which one do you struggle with the most?

Enjoy the variety of portraits from week 30!

xo Angie