Sparking your creativity

My theme for 2019 is fighting the creative funk that can plague photographers, to some degree, many times throughout their photographic career. 
These creative funks can be caused by many things.
1. Lack of time and being busy with work, or shooting for paying customer's projects.
2. Doing the same things over and over.
3. The end of the year blah's or even just winter. 
I've been identifying with most of these lately and have been trying to find ways to get back on track to making creative and interesting photographs.
I watched a video on You Tube recently, called "13 Creative Exercises for Photographers", which had some great ideas, and I'll embed the link below.  There are some really great ideas here, but the one that I really liked was incorporating as many of the 9 elements of photography into your shots as possible.  
By incorporating more of these elements, you are making sound fundamental photos and as any sports person knows, the fundamentals are what make you good at anything you do.  Baseball players constantly practice the fundamentals of batting, throwing and catching, to continue to grow in their sport.
These 9 Fundamentals are:
1. Light
2. Shadows
3. Line
4. Shape
5. Form
6 Texture
7. Color
8. Size
9 Depth
There are also 5 other components that make a great photo.
1. Focus
2. Tonality
3. Quality of light
4. Pattern
5. Negative space
The more of these things you can incorporate into your photos, the better they will be and the more creative you can be in taking and making them.
I will be trying to work these into more of my shots going forward, and break out of the photo funk to move ahead again.

I hope these help.

Photographically Yours.

Gordon.

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https://youtu.be/82bt_1_HMOA