I made a photograph.

A picture.

An image.

An archive.

A recording.

A photo.

A still.

A snapshot.

A landscape.

A portrait.

A closeup.

A frame.

A moment.

A slide.

A negative.

A plate.

A print.

A polaroid.

A capture.

A grab.

A file.

Some pix.

The process of making a photograph matters, as does the enjoyment, and the end result. But the noun? Not so much.

I made a photograph.

I took it.

I captured it.

I snapped it.

I clicked it.

I recorded it.

I documented it.

I created it.

I shot it.

I digitized it.

I grabbed it.

I exposed it.

I archived it.

I got it.

I found it.

I discovered it.

I composed it.

I framed it.

I lit it.

I arranged it.

The process of making a photograph matters, as does the enjoyment, and the end result. But the verb? Not so much.

This is my first blog entry on Dreamstime, please don't think it pretentious, I do think about "inspiration" all the time. What inspires us to take risks and make new things?

Inspiration for photographs seems to come from many possible sources.

First, while at times inspiration graces unexpectedly in a moment of solitude or near-sleep or near-waking, it most often comes from outside rather than some independent internal awakening.

Most often, inspiration comes from being prompted by someone else's inspired articulation. Not in an effort to reproduce or mimic what they did / said / created, but in a new expression which is inspired by their own expression.

By definition of course, inspiration is a stimulation or prompting, it comes from outside the person being ...