I typically have a few "projects"—or concepts as I think of them—going at a time. But I rarely pick up a camera looking for photos to fit a well-defined concept. That strikes me as too much like work. 
I prefer a more general approach...then in reviewing photos later on I'll sort them by already-existing concept, or maybe I'll discover a new concept suggested by a group of unintentionally related photos.
The attached pic, along with two others taken the same day, sparked off an on-going series featuring various outdoor tech devices enclosed in boxes with identifying embossed or raised text. But my thought at the time was nothing more specific than "suburban landscape."
-Dave-
Projects are of the utmost importance to a photographer. They give then direction and a purpose to focus their skills on.
We can look are some of the wonderful projects that a few fortunate photographers have been lucky to turn their attention to…
Narco Cultura - Shaul Schwarz
Street Cops - Jill Freedman
Wrongly Bodied - Clarissa Sligh
Les amies de Place Blanche - Christer Strömholm
Spain’s Religious Rituals - Cristina Garcia Rodero
Monsoons - Steve McCurry
Uncommon Places - Stephen Shore
Little People and Deerslayers - Les Krims
Too Much Time: Women in Prison - Jane Evelyn Atwood
Rangerettes and Weeping Mary - O. Rufus Lovett
