Comfort Zones
Ever want to do someting but you hold back because of what "others" may think?
It happened this weekend.
I went on a Flickr meet-up with the L.A. Group. We met at El Dorado Park Nature Center in Long Beach. Orbitgal (one of the groups moderators) invited a model for everyone to shoot (pictures, not hunt type shoot) in the trees. I was initially reluctant as I figured some of my contacts on Flickr would give me a hard time. It wasn't until the small group I was with (turned out they weren't really into the model shoot) met back up with the main group (about an hour and a half later) that I changed my mind.
I had never shot a model before (probably where some of the reluctance came from too, just easier to blame it on others) but once observing decided to give it a try. Before long I was really involved and getting into it.
I realized later that sometimes we have to force ourselves outside our comfort zones to be able to expand and improve on what we what really love to do. There's been a minimal amount of grief over the shoot (so far) and I learned a lot from it. I actually look forward to my next opportunity to try it again.
While the the Nature Center in January offered a limited potential several of us got in some nice nature shots. And the sub group I started in ended up getting into the model shoot too. Here's some of my shots. If you'd like to see what everyone did for the day go to Flickr and search for the tag eldorado0109 and see what the rest of the group captured.
