ideas.

I've had a few ideas lately. I've been trying to follow-up on them to see where they will lead and I'm coming up on pretty much nothing. The idea that's been nagging at me the most is trying to find people who are also interested in photography.

I know there is at least one group in this city that gets together somewhat regularly to take pictures... I just don't find myself to be all that interested in their events. Maybe I'm just being too close-minded about it though... Maybe I should just suck it up and try it out? I found myself looking at pictures from one of their last events. The pictures were interesting but the event still looked kind of lame.

Ryan suggested yesterday that maybe I should try starting a new group that would be... for ummm... younger people. I've been slowly trying to find people on Flickr that are in Toronto and who are doing interesting photography... (For some reason currently most of my flickr contacts seem to be in either China or Japan - makes for interesting pictures from my contacts but it doesn't really help me understand the potential that is here in this city.) I don't know... I think starting a new group might be a case of me re-inventing the wheel. I might be better off just going to the regular group meeting and finding people who want to do something a little more... interesting there.

And then we have the whole issue of what is interesting? I don't know. I've been really having trouble defining this. I want to start working on a project of some sort. I've thought of maybe doing some urban exploration type stuff for lack of a better idea (I'd definitely not want to be doing that alone) or there's always street photography which I think has more potential.

Last night I actually found someone in Toronto doing some interesting street photography!! WHAT?! I KNOW! I was surprised too! THERE IS HOPE! Kind of different stuff that I didn't expect / had never thought of - taken with an 85mm 1.4 lens... - looking at his stuff actually made me start looking at lenses again... oh to have a good auto-focus low-light lens... oh to have tons of money to spend on a prime... (NO! NO MORE LENSES!... okay... maybe one more lens...)

Ok. Wow. I need to get dressed to go to work! I woke up this morning thinking about all of this and just needed to write it down...