BAKLAVA!! Hey Kostas, Can I get some cheese w/ that whine (just kidding)!! The best remedy for me is to grab the camera one lens and one roll of film and devote the entire day just shooting something - anything. Often I find that just playing w/ the camera and some photons makes me feel better. Try shooting something you don't usually do - get outside your "normal" photo interests. Maybe talk to another artist outside photo. The one lens-one roll idea came from a good friend who suffers some serious meed swings, he says that this works for him and it has for me too. Good luck, Les On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:08:15 +0300 kostas papakotas <kostaspapakotas@hotmail.com> wrote: well i feel like i'm left in an oarless boat in the middle of a tranquile lake, these days.... i guess you all had your moments of lack of inspiration combined with no great achievents (aka a writer's block), but mine seems to been going on for some months now...(much like my radio days go) furthermore it'm getting no further, concerning the quality of my photos, to the extend that teh 2 last concert sessions were, maybe, the worst these year. i wonder if i have reached the end of my abilities, or if it is a matter of equipment. A new camera with autobracketing and IR focusing beam would help, along with some f/2.8 auto focus lenses, but it is not always the materials that count. i even felt that technique can help you with equipment defficiencies, but now i wonder. so what do you think? what's the way out? tahnx , kostas =============================================== so... no matter what, CHEER UP MY FRIENDS! Life is too precious to jump the other side of the fence... kostas papakotas / clenched teeth photography http://groups.msn.com/clenchedteethphotography/home.htm 'COS SOMETIMES IT IS BETTER WITH CLENCHED TEETH! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx