I updated my Facebook status yesterday: Emily is full of ideas and not much action.

Those ideas have all centered around photography. For the past week or so I’ve been bouncing around the internet, reading blogs and photography websites, tracking down more links than I care to count. I’m finding inspiration, finding ideas, finding a great deal of joy in reading the most obscure articles on things like off-camera flash. Finding myself driven, motivated to learn more, to practice more, to try and to fail if that’s what it takes to do better the next time.

Because I’m finding that photography makes sense.

But I’m also finding myself doing more *thinking about* rather than *acting upon* these new ideas. I need to go pick up my camera and get out there. Or else this love of photography is entirely meaningless.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. (Frank Tibolt, Lenswork Quotes for Photographers)