Inertia by Ted Gore

Inertia by Ted Gore

Funny I should use a colorless image to announce a new article I just put up on my website about color theory and how it pertains to landscape photography. But if that sounds interesting to you, check it out HERE! In a series of processing videos I recently launched, color theory is something I discuss in detail for each image of the series. I think they are pretty unique videos, and if you’d like to check them out you can find those HERE. Inertia. This image gave me that as it pulled me out of a recent creative free-fall that I seem to so often go through. Creativity has never been an easy thing for me, and moving in out of different creative spaces makes it extra difficult. Coming back from a recent trip to the Dolomites Erin Babnik and Rob Lafreniere where I enjoyed creative freedom, to then be shoved back into my role as a motion graphic designer, requiring and entirely different kind of creativity was like hitting a brick wall. I went nearly comatose, creatively, for the better part of two weeks. And that is STRESSFUL. The desire to create, with the seemingly complete lack in ability to do so is very powerful. In a negative way. It can send me spiraling out of my orbit into an uncontrolled creative free-fall. Hard to deal with sometimes, but I have to stop and remind myself that it’s ok to rest. It’s ok to just come home from work and be vegetable on the couch, binge watching Making a Murderer(have you seen this yet, btw? OMG). Still, despite my best efforts to reason with myself, a little voice in the back of my head drones on… ‘you’re falling behind’. Creatively likeminded friends are a safety net in times like this, and I have Erin to thank for helping pull out of my nose dive. She pulled this one out of a handful of shots I was toying with, shoving it into my grip, and said ‘THAT ONE’. Off I went, spurred on to further explore the image past what I was unable to see prior to a little transfer of momentum. An Andean Condor floats through the stormy skies around Cuerno Principal, in a moment captured not long after my previous shot(6 hours later). The clouds danced around the mountains that day in a seductive tango, and it all made for a scene that makes me forget about the frictional forces in life for awhile.

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