BUSY SATURDAY.
I was full of joy thinking about going to Zurich with my Leica Q2 to shoot some people and moments out on the streets.
But as we got there I felt somehow empty. Lack of creativity, lack of excitement, lack of everything.
The streets where full of people. There was a kids carnival and a protest for women’s rights. Nothing I’m super interested in shooting and because of these two events most of the center was closed by police.
Nevertheless I kissed Sam goodbye as she was there with her friend and her kids and I wanted to walk around the streets by myself.
And the first thing out of all things a photographer with a Leica, a packed street and perfect weather would do - I did. I sat down on a staircase in the sun and did nothing. I couldn’t help myself getting out of this hole. There could be the craziest scenes happening in front of you, but if you don’t see it, because you don’t feel it, it’s worth nothing.
I told myself to get my shit together since this is what I want for my life. To travel, explore, experience and capture everything with my camera. Honestly, doesn’t matter what camera and where. I just know deep down I’m made for this. To make people see, to feel what I felt when I saw something but explaining it without words, just with an image.
So I finally convinced myself to get up, stop sunbathing since that was not the mission I was here for today.
And as I kept walking through the people, not forcing anything just observing, I found myself taking my Leica out of my Porter bag and looking through the viewfinder.
As I kept going, it was around already 4 PM and I was wandering around, or better said, chilling around since 2 PM. And I haven’t taken one single shot yet.
So I told myself, just press the shutter no matter what, even if there won’t be anything at the end of the day, at least I tried. And as I just kept making photographs of random people, moments and emotions I slowly got into it and started to feel it more and more. I immediately had to thing of the gym, or running, or writing this blog post here. Even if I don’t feel motivated to do something, what helps me the most is always to just start.
And the best part about all of it - in the evening I was quite happy, because there were actually some photographs I really enjoy looking at.
What do you think? Let me know down in the comments. BTW the presets I used are to download for free. Happy to take and to enjoy!
Honestly I find it more difficult to shoot Monochrome, because there it’s all about composition. With popping colors you can always catch the viewer, but if there is just the moment itself with no color to it?
Which one do you prefer? I think I’ll stick to Monochrome, for me it’s just more special.
