Dewitt Jones is a famous nature and artistic photographer who teaches, too. In his seminars he tells about meeting a little kid in a park with a plastic fake camera and the two of them wandering around “taking pictures”, Jones with his fancy SLR and the kid following around copying him with his toy camera. At the end of a long trip around the campground area, the little boy asks him, “Mister, do you have any juice in your camera?”

Jones thinks about that seriously, thinking about the batteries inside and how this boy’s camera doesn’t have any. Then the kid explained that he had juice in his camera and grabbed what looked like a cable release and sucked up Koolaid out of the camera’s innards.

Jones was so surprised and yet delighted with the idea of having “juice” in his camera, so he made that analogy when asking his students if they had any “juice” in their cameras, making juice become the creative energies that you “drink up” and which fills you up with the motivation and inspiration to create good photographs.

We just loved the idea of “juice in the camera” and still talk about it when our creativity ebbs.

And it sounds like you have still got plenty of juice in you.

We all need a break from time-to-time, to step back and reflect on our work and where we want to go next, I don’t see you as having lost anything, just maturing your work into something spectacular.

I feel the same way when it comes to updating, that I ‘owe’ my readers something and they’ll get bored if I don’t update much. Then I remember that some of my readers read my blog through an RSS feed, so they aren’t checking the actual site for updates.

I like how you jump all over the place :). I’d rather read more than one facet about a person’s life than a predefined subject.