You know that feeling when you learn something new and you realize you might have a knack for it so you go work on being better everyday? The feeling of passion burning inside you. The feeling of wanting to learn something new each passing day.

Lately, I think I’ve lost that passion of wanting to learn and pursue something that I used to love.

When I discovered the art and fun in photographing people, things, events -everything, it fascinated me. I wouldn’t stop pressing the shutter after finding something, even something totally uninteresting, and capturing that one instant.

However, right now, I’ve found that wanting to take even better photos than before becomes a challenge. There are so many things to consider.

Taking the time to actually compose the photograph and adjusting the settings to make the image ‘perfect’ has actually limited me, in a way.

Before, I’d just randomly choose a subject and imagine what would be the best way to show it to everyone, in a totally different manner. Now, I would think over and over how I can make it different from other photographs of the same subject, but end up imitating, or be closely similar to a photograph I’ve seen.

Does this mean that learning actually hinders you in a way? Or am I just seeing things wrongly?

Before, creativity would flow endlessly like the water in a river. But now, I feel as if something, probably the rules, are hindering me from unleashing the creativity now locked within me.

Is that even possible?