Not necessarily my ultimate thought about inspiration...

Today one of my friends told me that he had an appreciation mail from someone for his photographs, saying he found the photographs inspiring.

I don’t think that what ought to be inspiring should be photographs. In terms of  concreteness the hierarchy should be like; the photograph itself (the fragment of a medium representing/depicting the photograph), the elements in the photograph (location, lightning etc.) and the characteristics/attributes of these elements. These three aspects aren’t supposed to be criteria to be ‘inspired’.

Inspiration must come from the nature itself, without any medium or interpretation, to the individual. Then it’s up to the individual to ………... (fill in the blanks with any verb you want to).  If it comes from a second hand representation, then there’s no use of it.

Inspiration is a one-to-one process. It’s an interaction between one’s self and one’s brain (or whatsoever the word is for your perception).

So the right word for that kind of a situation should be “influenceable” or may be “encouraging”.

This is only just a small fragment of what I think about inspiration. There’s a lack of perception about what I wrote and I like it that way.