A long long time ago I was a crazy fool with a point and shoot. It was a Kodak EasyShare of some sort and I thought I was hot stuff. Ah, to be young again.
It's crazy to look back and see what I thought was "so good" in those days. Then I think about how much I still have to learn and wonder if anything I have shot has been "so good." Like any art form, photography is a process (no pun intended), skills have to be developed (again, no pun) over time. Looking through old shots is an ebb and flow of skills and perspectives.
Back then I would shoot anything, no matter how mundane. I'd give it some kind of "flare", a tilt, some blur, color tweaks, anything to make it "look cool". Nothing was too outrageous. Oddly enough, I never got into the HDR fad that seemed to take over around 2009. I had my own sloppy, eclectic style and I embraced it whole heartedly.
Now I wonder what happened. I have been so buried in technical stuff that I sometimes wonder if the fun is gone. Maybe I have matured? It's still fun for me, just in a different way. I have far more failures than successes, but I learn from them. I fail because I try new things, I try new things because I'm not settled, I'm not settled because I'm too interested in new things.
The pictures I share here are not my best. They are what they are: good, bad, ugly, and beautiful. I'm not embarrassed to share my failures and I hope no one thinks I share with an inflated ego. Some (most?) of my pictures are crap. I like some of them, I like the imperfections, I like the failures, and I hate quite a few. Most are just a neutral record of a work in progress.
"Failures" may be too harsh a word. But I do believe we only improve when we like our work less and less. Growth is continual improvement, and if we already believe we are great, what will drive us to improve?
I never felt stagnant with my little point and shoot, I just grew out of it. However, it might do me some good to start shooting sloppy again. Nothing technical, just shoot what I see, and play with it.
Abstract painters frequently started out with excellent technical skills. Maybe it's the same with photography, maybe combining the technical skills I've been drowning in with a sloppy "shoot anything" attitude will make for great images.
Great, but never perfect.
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Well, let me admit, I feel exactly the same way.
I like my old photos less and less. Photography really is a process and a day without learning something new and applying it, for me, is a day backwards. At least that's how it feels to me :)
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