Burnt Out on Photography? Here's Why It Happens and How to Actually Get Your Drive Back

Burnt Out on Photography? Here's Why It Happens and How to Actually Get Your Drive Back

There is a specific kind of exhaustion that creeps up on creative people slowly, then all at once. For me, it showed up after my third consecutive 60-hour wedding weekend. I remember sitting in front of my editing queue on a Monday morning, looking at 1,800 raw files, and feeling absolutely nothing. Not dread, not excitement. Just nothing. That hollow feeling was the first real signal that something needed to change, and it eventually pushed me away from weddings entirely and toward the retouching work I do now.