I’m finding that hobbies are good for the soul. For a while I was the type of person that thought hobbies were… well ….stupid. Stupid may be kinda harsh but that’s just how I felt. That was until I started to throw my self into one. There is a benefit that it may help me in my job but that isn’t the main reason. We all need a little outlet. Especially when you work in a creative environment. When you are always having to create because of your job you get creation fatigue. I think I just just made that up. No, blogging is not that outlet. It’s taking pictures. I like it. I like buying stuff to take better pictures. What better way to learn. I need to print more. When it just lives on a screen its really not that cool. I’ve also started to randomly design websites. I know nothing about proper design of websites but I think that’s the point. I read and watch stuff and just do it. I like it… its my hobby. That brings me to another thing. So Cowert a dude some of us follow on twitter started this thing called Help-Portrait. Not going to explain I will just put the link to the video you can watch for your self. Chappy at ericchapmanphoto.com and I are trying to work this out for December. It’s going to happen. I’ve got a couple irons in the fire about it. This isn’t what the post is about….but I wanted you to be aware of what creatives are trying to do. This post is about finding yourself a hobby. We all can’t live to work. I’ve done that for far too long.
