
Look out of your window at different hours of the day, over and over again until new details start popping up in your viewfinder. Make routine your friend by focusing your attention on smaller details every time you walk by the same scene. Once you get used to the background noise, you can pay attention to the little changes in light, color, and small details that are never the same as the day before. On the other hand, routine is the frame in which you create.

You walk by the same corner every day for years, and you get used to it so much that you stop seeing its potential to make great photos. Routine is often thought to be a major enemy of creativity. The hunt for an interesting texture photo while on a short brake from computer work, led me to this photo out of my studio’s window. On your first encounters with the camera you fell in love with a simple magic that the camera can do, it is now the time to go back to that magic and do it all over again.

Underneath it is the magic that made you grab the camera for the first time, the thing that got you excited when you held your eye to the viewfinder. If you find yourself uninterested in doing things that you already know and have done, that is your box. Thinking out of the box requires a box to begin.
