OUCH!! WAS THAT A WALL??

It’s been 10 months since the birth of Photographyfree4all!  Wow!  Where does the time go?  When I was a kid, it seemed my summers lasted forever!  Now, it seems one season slips into the next so quickly – I can’t even begin to keep up.  Wasn’t it just last week that we were hoarding food and water because of Y2K? 

Starting a business can be the same way!  The time is passing so quickly and there is so much to do.  Between the shooting and the organization, the printing and the framing, the legalities and the taxation issues, the planning and the networking, I sometimes find myself a bit overwhelmed!

Lately it seems I’m going out to shoot, but coming back with very little production.  I think I’m likely going through something so many of you have already experienced.  This week I found myself at the beach, but the weather conditions simply would not cooperate to produce any great captures.  And today, the same thing. 

I pour through thousands of shots that I’ve captured, but find something flawed in almost every one of them.  Most of the time it’s something small, or something I believe I could do better now – but, I still see it and my perfectionist gene won’t allow me to give it a pass.  Maybe that will eventually be a good thing – it has always served me well in the past. 

Right now, I feel like I’m running straight into a wall!  And even though I realize that, I get up the next morning with new energy…but seem to run into that same wall all over again!  To tell you the truth, my head is starting to hurt! 

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But, I continue to move forward.  Am I moving quickly enough?  I believe so.  Even though I wish everything would move quicker.  If it did, I probably wouldn’t be able to keep up. 

Do you ever get down?  Do you ever feel like the images you’re capturing are ordinary at best?  Do you think we sometimes see our photography so much that we’re no longer captivated by it?  I think that may be what I’m feeling right now.  I wonder if I’m still making progress.  But then, I look at some of my early shots and I think, “Oh my!  Did I really post that on my blog?” 

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I told you I was going to report the good with the not so good.  I wouldn’t want you to think I’m just moving down this path without any bumps in the road.  Sometimes, I look at my work and think, “Who would want this?”  I guess I’ll carry that unanswered question with me until I begin to see my work sell.  Maybe that will be sooner, rather than later.

The Sherman Library and Gardens - Newport beach, California

So, I leave you with yet another flower image.  As you can readily see, I’ve applied an artistic layer to create a bolder, edgier image.  It’s not that I don’t like soft flower images.  But everyone does soft flowers.  And I like this bold presentation better, for now.

 Thanks for being there!  You all are a great encouragement to me!

NOW IS THE TIME TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

If you limit your vision, you limit your possibilities.

Aim beyond your wildest dreams.

Set some seemingly impossible targets,

Then ignore all the negatives,

And turn those dreams into reality.

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~ by photographyfree4all on March 24, 2011.