How to Reignite the Creative Spark, Tips for Doing Galleries, & Detaching Emotionally from How Audiences Perceive Your Work

This episode dives into the story of a listener who’s feeling uninspired by wedding photography, despite its financial success. We explore how creative challenges and mild stress can reignite that lost spark, along with the unique fulfillment of seeing your work printed and displayed, rather than just scrolled past online.

We also discuss our personal experiences with galleries—how to choose photos to print, price them, and the rewarding feeling of witnessing people connect with your art. Additionally, we reflect on separating the joy of creating from audience reactions and how keeping some forms of photography as hobbies, rather than monetizing them, can preserve their magic.

Expect to learn:

-how to introduce challenges or mild stress on purpose to reignite passion
-how printing your work elicits a deeper connection with a real-world audience
-how to decide which photos to print, and how to price them
-to detach emotionally from your feelings creating a photo and how viewers perceive it
-why you don't need to monetize genres of photography that you enjoy


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