What you have done after the stroke is pretty amazing, you kept writing on Hive daily. That is hard to do even for those of us who never had a stroke.
Nice pictures, I like that you changed them into black and white. Did you find it harder to take pictures after the stroke or it had no impact on your photographic vision?
Much harder. I can no longer imagine the image before I take it, if that makes sense. I have some rough idea of what I want, but it is far harder to achieve now. The automation in my imagination is gone, so everything has to be processed in my head manually, which has massive effects on the way I process and experience the world. It is really energy intensive, plus my motivation dropped off a cliff, so you can imagine when you have no motivation and the task is difficult, it makes it very hard to get it done.
It does make sense, I suspected that could be the case as I know that it takes quite a bit to envision the image which makes it a lot easier to take good pictures. And yes, when something becomes energy intensive you tend to do it less and enjoy it less.