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Let Your Eyes Do the Work

Creativity Challenge 2001 #19

This past week I spent time with about 80 professional media photographers from the American Society of Media Photographers at their Annual Bradshaw Leadership Conference in Aspen, Colorado. I know it was tough work. But someone has to the tough assignments.

The day before I arrived it was 80+ degrees in Denver. The day I arrived it was in the 30s and they had a "storm warning" for that night. I drove from Denver to Aspen (about 4 hours) through quickly chilling temperatures and rain. By 3:00 the next day for hours we had been in a blizzard that started around 6:00 am. By the next day there were reports of 24+ inches of snow on the ground.

Talk about a creative environment!

This week's challenge was sparked by watching the ASMP Conference Annual Slide Show on Saturday night. They actually let this amateur, "point and click" photographer have 4 slides in it.

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First put together a collection of photos from magazines, newspapers, your professional and/or personal photos. Sort them out into 5 piles, one for each day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

Then each day randomly pick pairs of photos and use them to spark ideas for a chosen current challenge of yours. Use the images and their combination to provide you ideas or idea sparkers.

I.E.:

Monday

Pick 3 pairs of photos

1. sunset & family Christmas scene

Your Challenge is how to improve your product delivery system.

What ideas come to mind from looking at the two photos, individually and together.

Let the details in the images, the overall images, the feelings provoked by the memories the photos hold spark ideas or questions.

Share some examples with me directly or the list if you are on a creativity internet email list.

Best wishes for a great and creative week.

Creative Thinking doesn't always solve problems while it always helps provide us with ideas of how to live with, deal with, tolerate, enjoy, benefit from unsolved or unsolvable challenges. I speak from many experiences.

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