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Rut or Groove?

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Rut or Groove?
Ask yourself, “Is it a groove or a rut?” Then take steps to get out of a rut and into the groove. Habits can facilitate success, by consolidating an accumulation of effort, ensuring consistency, and getting you into the zone faster. Habits can be barriers to success, if you end up searching the same ground and coming up with the same answers again and again. To keep things fresh, make it a habit to try something new. What’s the best way to get started? List your habits and systematically challenge them. Instead of challenging them all at once, identify areas you think are most likely to be fruitful and concentrate on them one at a time. Really give it a go; don’t back off to quickly or easily. If you do, you’ll find either confirmation or make a breakthrough.

180 Degrees

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180 Degrees

The most powerful creative techniques provide an opportunity for you to shift your perspective. The most powerful technique of all is reversal. Shift your perspective 180 degrees. Make an observation or assertion. Then make an observation from the opposite perspective or assert the opposite. Use this as a tool for exploration. Many ideas will come to light. It may take a little practice to find the real utility in any technique, so don’t give up too quickly. You’ll also find every technique has its limitations; this technique leads you towards framing things as dichotomies (either/or choices) rather than dialetics (spectrums of possibilities).
How has this helped me? Let me count the ways! Here’s one. It’s been tremendously stimulating for me to constantly shift between making minimally altered photographs and highly altered images.

My Top 12 Images Of 2003

Arabesque III

Arabesque III

Arabesque VII

Arabesque VII

Arabesque XVI

Arabesque XVI

Correspondence - Sonata in Blue -IVB

Correspondence Sonata in Blue IV-B

Correspondence - Sonata in Blue -XIV

Correspondence Sonata in Blue XIV

Correspondence - Sonata in Blue -XIX

Correspondence Sonata in Blue XIX

Correspondence - Sonata in Blue -XV

Correspondence Sonata in Blue XV

Correspondence - Sonata In Blue XVI

Correspondence Sonata in Blue XVI

Correspondence - Sonata in Blue -XVIII

Correspondence Sonata in Blue XVIII

Survivor I

Survivor I

Survivor II

Survivor II

Survivor IV

Survivor IV

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My Top 12 Images Of 2001

Condensation II - Prelude

Condensation Prelude in Gray II

Condensation III - Prelude

Condensation Prelude in Gray III

Condensation IV - Prelude

Condensation Prelude in Gray IV

Correspondence - Nocturne in Blue - VIIB

Correspondence Nocturne in Blue VII-B

Correspondence VIIA - Sonata

Correspondence Sonata in Blue VII-A

Glory I

Glory I

Intermezzo II

Intermezzo II

Oriental II

Oriental II

Reflection XII Adagio

Reflection XII – Adagio

Resonance in Blue and Gold IA

Resonance in Blue and Gold I-A

Resonance in Red and Gold IA

Resonance in Red and Gold I-A

Sounding I

Sounding I

Sounding II

Sounding II

Sounding VII

Sounding VII

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