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I have been in such a creative funk this year (and I’m not sure why) and that has put me into an even deeper funk.  I’ve looked back at what I have shot so far in 2013 and 99% of it sucks.  I am beginning to believe that the 365 project is really not in my best interest from a creativity standpoint.  Having said that I am determined to complete the project but my images really do seem to be getting worse.

I only bring this up because a friend at work asked me yesterday what was going on?  He said that I haven’t been blogging of late and he was worried that something had happened.  Nope, just in a fog right now.  Everywhere I look I see the same things I’ve shot and can’t seem to figure out a new approach.

I attended a funeral yesterday.  I had never met the individual although his son is my friend.  As I was sitting there watching the video slide show run of his life, I thought about the same question that has always bothered through out my life and it always seems to occur at funerals.  “What is the point?”  I watched a person’s life from baby to old man on the slide show and thought how many times since humans set foot on the planet has this scene played out.  It reminds me of the song “Is that all there is?”

I raised the question to a friend who also attended the funeral.  He had a reasonably good answer and quoted some of his favorite verses from the Bible.  But it still left me with the same nagging question.  Not really something you want to discuss on a photography blog but I tend to write what I feel and think about.  If you’ve got any good answers I’d like to hear them.

That’s it for today.  Make the best of this day as it could always be the last one we have.  So be careful.