Since I don't have the time to go traveling much lately, I just try to watch for opportunities in my neighborhood. A shop window that had an entire wall of little golden waving 'maneki neko' (fortune cat) statues, the way a sunset looked through the branches of a tree growing alongside a bridge, the Space Needle seen from across the Cut.
If I don't feel immediately inspired, I come up with a challenge to myself. Experimenting with depth of field, etc. Not a shot to inspire me, but a challenge to get me thinking.
One of my more recent challenges to myself was to come up with a good way to shoot a macro of a little clockwork piece I had. I finally affixed it to a piece of standard HP printer paper, then propped it (with the paper behind it) up against my writing notebook on my desk. Took the macro shot, and had a lovely background and texture with the clock.
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