Contact sheets of answers

Development of photography as an art form has given us a bunch of professionals whom we admire and look up to. To the large audience seeing a picture framed on a wall or scanned and published on the web is enough. However, I consider myself to belong to a kind of people who do not stay within limits of mere observation. My curiosity pushes me to investigate a story behind every shot I find special: circumstances a shot was taken at, what was the lighting, what camera/film/lens was used...

The essence of creative process

The other day I thought about shooting something new, something I have never even thought of shooting. But how can one realize what that is if he never thought about it? When going through the portfolios of established photographers I was often amazed by how unique and original their ideas were. But is it so? Have you ever wondered yourself how do you come up with new ideas and how do you "create new"? What triggers your imagination?