All of the shooting is done, at least for now. There are about 12 days remaining and now the hard part comes. I thought that I had a cool idea that I was going to use, but it is just not fitting together they way that I thought it would. Oh well, back to the drawing board. Lurking below the level of consciousness is an idea. Somewhere, among those 554 pictures, is a pattern, an idea. It is one of those ideas that disappears into vapor once you try to speak it. I know that it will surface; I just need to play a bit with different things and keep feeding it.
I’ve done lots of work on my proposed idea, but it’s just not working, so there’s no use in crying over spilled milk, so they say. I’ll just move back a few spaces and give it another roll and see what happens. No need for panic as that seizes up the synapses and all creativity ceases to flow. Slow and steady wins the race.
This weekend is another basketball weekend, but then again, which one isn’t?! 
Tony’s team is playing in Rock Hill, SC, about 1 hour from here. So, I’ll go, enjoy some basketball, and let this idea, whatever it is, bubble to the surface. Vaguely, I know that it has to do with the pictures and perhaps some quotations, but I’m not sure of the overall format. I’ll be excited to see what it is when it finally reveals itself to me. Meanwhile, I’ll just keep feeding by looking at all of the pictures that I’ve taken.
I’ll just get out of my way and let the answer come… One cannot force a thought, it must, and always, happen on it’s own. This is my way of practicing Wu-Wei, one of the basic parts of Taoism. Wu-Wei, often described as non-action, but more appropriately, non-forcing, letting things happen. Wood is always easier to cut with the grain, than against.
Go, Kings! Go!
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Tricky aren’t they—these plans we make? There is a lot of that vapor going around. It’s a little like those dreams where you are reading a map or directions and the paper disintegrates before your eyes. Oh, well, this means I may see paths that otherwise would have been overlooked.
Paul,
I would appreciate it if you would write an article describing how a parent might go about photographing their kids basketball games (From my lurking on your blog, you look like the just the man with the skill set for the job). It’s not so much that I would appreciate it (No basketball son) but that the rest of the world might.
Some background. Back when I wanted to shoot my son’s hockey games I scoured the net for some recommendations and came up empty handed. I even looked looked for basketball info figuring it was close enough to hockey, again no luck. Now that I have some experience with hockey I realize how valuable that experience could be for others (It’s not as straight forward as one would think). Someone needs to get this sports photo experience thing written down. I went back through all your old posts to see if you had done the job already, but no luck. I did however run into an interesting quote of yours that illustrates why this experience info is not that straight forward, “Getting close to the action is no problem. The problem is getting far enough away from the action. They gyms are pretty small and, to get the best vantage points, I had to sit on the top row of the bleachers.” from post “http://www.paullesterphoto.com/wordpress/?p=176″.
I’ve taken a crack at writing the hockey photo notes down on my blog over at http://rvewong.wordpress.com/ You might want to check it out as an example of what I’m talking about. My blog is primarily about photography and quite new. Despite this limitation,I notice almost all search traffic that gets there has to do with one post I wrote about Hockey Photography (I figure there must be a demand for this sort of thing).
By the way I’ve started on a similar thing for hockey video that you might find useful for your video work. It’s going to be large and not finished for a some time, right now it’s still a work in progress, but I’ve left it open to the public as I work on it’s warts. “Anything is Better than Nothing”, this later quote the only piece of advice my father gave to me when I went off to university, handed to him by one of his Engineering professors.
P.S. If you know of anyone else with similar experience please yank their chain…
Regards, Bob
@Bob: That’s an excellent suggestion! Look for the post in the next couple of days, perhaps tomorrow, if I have time to do it.