I lost my passion

When I bought my first DSLR about 8 years ago, I was so excited and nervous and scared. I remember endlessly watching review videos about the Nikon D3100. That, being the camera I was going to buy. I had to wait about 2 weeks until my next payday in order to purchase it. So, during that time I can remember watching and reading a number of reviews on the D3100. But, the video I remember watching the most was the one produced by  Kaiman Wong AKA KAI W., who at the time work at DigitalRev. I remember watching that video over and over again in anticipation of getting my own D3100.

After practicing for a few hours I felt comfortable venturing out and about to take some pictures. I did so much walking taking picture of just about everything and anything. I was so pumped and driven to get better as I went along. I can remember eagerly waiting for my days off of work to grab my camera and go take pictures.

Unfortunately, at the present, that excitement has regrettably left me. Lately I have been in a funk not only with my photography but other things that I once had a passion for. Every time I look at my camera (which by the way now, is a Canon 80D) I don't feel the yearning to go out and shoot photographs.

So what I've been doing for the last few days is going back through my RAW files and editing some of the pictures I took with my old camera and posting some online. Doing that kind of got me reinvigorated to go out and take more pictures like I used to do. I hope I can come out of this fog. This coming weekend I have vowed to grab my camera and rekindle my passion for photography and take the best pictures I have ever taken so far.

Here are some of the old photographs I have rediscovered and edited for the first time. I have never shared these pictures anywhere before. I hope you enjoy them.

I love the beach

One of the many regrets last year was the fact that I never got out to one of my favorite places, the beach. I really feel a closeness to the ocean, always have. When I hear seagulls cackling, that evokes feelings of bliss because I associate that sound to the ocean and the beach. When the first winter wind blew in last year I made a vow, "next year I will get out to the beach as much as I can." Here I am, and I have made it out to the beach 4 times so far and plan to go out again before cold weather (which I hate) is here again.