Jon Yager Photography

I’ve been feeling in a bit of a creative funk in my personal work lately.  Taking a photo a day and trying to post a good photo everyday can do that to you.  I decided to take a trip to the Ventura County Fair and see if I could re-energize my creativity.

The interesting thing is I’m not sure if it worked.  I try to do “street” photography often, but I don’t think I’m that good at it.  I need much more work to get good at it.  It feels so out of control for me.  I like to have more control of my lighting, and composition, and ideas.  The idea was to try push myself a bit.  I think if you don’t do that occasionally in everything you do, you will not move forward.

No matter what you do, take a day every once in a while and push the edge. Try something new.  Make yourself uncomfortable.  Try to fail even.

It is in your mistakes that creativity happens. I don’t care what you do, or what you are working on.  If you want to be truly creative at it, you must be in a position to make mistakes.  You must capitalize on those mistakes.  If you are not, then get out there.  Make yourself uncomfortable.  Fail.

Okay, enough of that.  Here are a few photos I took at the fair.  Click on them to see them larger.  I was not overly successful at the people pictures, I failed there.  I think I learned some things though, so it was worth it.

My family, along with almost the entire extended family on my wife’s side, spent the week of July 4th in Pismo Beach.  We had a great time.  The weather was a bit on the cooler side, but it turned out to be perfect.  Time on the beach, cousins playing together, early morning photo walks, eating way to much food . . . . what could be better?

Below is a slide show of my favorite pictures of the week. There is a good combination of landscapes, portraits, and scenery type things.  A week of vacation means a week with my camera to me.

You can also see all the photo’s here – Pismo Beach Photo’s

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