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Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking →
Merlin Mann, on a recent picture he took of one of his daughter’s Crocs:
I know, it’s no masterpiece, but I’m proud of it for reasons of my own. Because, last night, as I was splayed prone in the fog along Taraval Street, I realized I was getting a little better at this.
Not because I’d been magically touched with mythical creativity and skill, but because for a moment I was thinking more about how to use what I’d learned to get a good photo than I was about how I might have looked while doing it. And, that felt like a small turning point.
I love posts like this. They always serve as great reminders that people rarely get something right on the first try. More often than not, it’s a process, the result of baby steps, and I would do well to remember that when I find myself frustrated that something just doesn’t feel quite right.
So true.
