2014 Ostrich Festival

Yesterday my wife and I went to the Ostrich Festival in Gilbert, AZ where we saw two ostriches in a fenced in area and not much else. It basically was the State Fair, minus the art, plus rumors that their would be a lot of ostriches. We did have a great time, we just happened to be there in between Ostrich themed activities, on the last day of the festival. As I walked around with my camera, not quite sure what to take  pictures of, I had the thought Why did I even bring this camera, this place looks like any other carnival and now I have to carry it around all day. Then my wife said something to me that seemed so normal, but for some reason it just really helped. she said, Aren’t you going to take any pictures? to which I replied, I don’t know, maybe. The she just said, Why don’t you take a picture of that? and she pointed to a huge swirling carnival ride. So I did, and just like that, the “I don’t know, maybe” phase was gone. Here is that picture:

Huge Swirling Carnival Ride/Creative Slump Breaker

It was weird just suddenly feeling much better about taking photos once I had started. It sort of spoke to me in a way that Mark Wallace used to bring up in some of the videos I made with him. If you don’t know what to take pictures of then just start taking pictures, once you have something captured it is much easier to think about it in different ways and go from there. I actually really like the picture above. I’m really glad I took it. I can’t believe I almost walked right passed it without even a glance.

I feel like if I try and read to much into this right now, I will force a blog post out that just becomes rambly, so I will leave you with my aforementioned paraphrase of Mark Wallace musings, and then show you one more picture I snapped of a guy from the BMX Freestyle Team that was performing at the festival.

BMX Freestyle Guy/Not an Ostrich