At first the image didn't come up and I was like D: I DON'T GET IT!!! lol. xD but now I have just finished reading it and it was pretty inspirational. :) Thanks for posting! :)
This is ironic you put this. I've been kicking myself all day because I'm trying harder to get my pictures to end up clearer and it's frustrating when in my head I see what I want, but it's not coming out quite right lol. :)
I already knew that. It's one of the best things i ever read. It's exactly what i think. So inspirational. I guess i already crossed that creative barrier, that point in life where you question your skills and your talent. I suffered with it, but i stick to it. And survived. And i am much better today because of that.
nothing wrong with being hard on yourself, as long as you don't drive yourself to quit ;) thanks for sharing, it's taken me 15 years to even half learn that lesson!
I read it first, and then read it aloud to someone and it so makes sense. I have always enjoyed photography but was satisfied that it captured what I wanted but were never good enough to give as gifts. I still look at my photos and think, they are not ready yet to enter contests and sell, but I can see how the gap is closing. A photo a day really makes the gap close really quickly.
it's a nice thought, but Ira Glass has nothing to do with photography. I prefer this:
“No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It’s the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.”
― Joe McNally
This makes a lot of sense to me. I have thought of quitting so many times that I cannot count these times. I am a perfectionist, so I have to fight being so hard on myself all of the time. I am working on accepting that I am learning and trying (concentrating on the process instead of the final result). I went to an art workshop last weekend. The workshop teacher inspired us to experiment and have fun. He told us that we could learn from our mistakes and we could use the art prints we didn't like in something else, such as a collage or a base for another print. I am trying to use his words of wisdom in my photography.
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“No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It’s the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.”
― Joe McNally