I've been liberated! Well sort of anyway. Until I started my 365 project I would only post images to my Flickr page, here on the blog or wherever else, that I thought were "good enough" to be looked at by others. Well now that I need to take an image every day, I am posting images that I wouldn't normally post because they are not "good enough". This worried me at first because I didn't want people to see images that are just ok and think that well whatever they would think. It is only normal to show your best work, that is what everyone does right? The pros will take hundreds if not thousands of images and we'll only see a very small amount of those, the best, the ones that are "good enough".
My attitude towards posting images has changed a little recently in that I accept that for this 365 project not every image will be a great shot. Since I've accepted that I've had more fun. It would be a different story if I was creating a portfolio of my best images or was a working pro photographer. In that case of course I would only show my best stuff. One thing I do try to do is always attempt to be creative and make the best images I can. They wont always be "Good enough" but nobody always creates amazing shots, every day.
One thing for sure is that the more you practice the better you get and so I'll keep at this 365 project and keep making ok images and every now and then I'll make images that are "good enough".
Thanks for reading and keep on creating...
Patrick
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