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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 305899" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>I don't have the time to read through the advice you've already been given, but I can tell that I've seen you grow as a photographer since you've joined here, in leaps and bounds. This is not a race that you finish, it's a constant journey where you never arrive at the final destination.</p><p></p><p>I think any of us who have striven (I can't believe that's a word?!) to grow as photographers can look back at our work over time and point to those times where we've jumped ahead tremendously, and those times where growth seems slow, but it was really a time of filtering through the process and the information to find ourselves in what we'd gleaned from others. </p><p></p><p>As for your experience of going out for a night and coming back with nothing, we've all been there, many times. I've had days where I can't make a photo, and it's not for a lack of trying. Sometimes conditions and environment just don't cooperate - and sometimes the brain and eyes just can't find it. I think back on a quote I heard at a Kelby workshop where a great landscape photographer was asked how he achieved so many marvelous shots. His answer? "I keep going back to them, over and over and over again, at the right time of year, and the right time of day. Visit a place often enough and you'll eventually get a shot worth taking. Some have taken me 15 years before I got <em>the shot.</em>" So, don't sweat a bad night. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 305899, member: 9240"] I don't have the time to read through the advice you've already been given, but I can tell that I've seen you grow as a photographer since you've joined here, in leaps and bounds. This is not a race that you finish, it's a constant journey where you never arrive at the final destination. I think any of us who have striven (I can't believe that's a word?!) to grow as photographers can look back at our work over time and point to those times where we've jumped ahead tremendously, and those times where growth seems slow, but it was really a time of filtering through the process and the information to find ourselves in what we'd gleaned from others. As for your experience of going out for a night and coming back with nothing, we've all been there, many times. I've had days where I can't make a photo, and it's not for a lack of trying. Sometimes conditions and environment just don't cooperate - and sometimes the brain and eyes just can't find it. I think back on a quote I heard at a Kelby workshop where a great landscape photographer was asked how he achieved so many marvelous shots. His answer? "I keep going back to them, over and over and over again, at the right time of year, and the right time of day. Visit a place often enough and you'll eventually get a shot worth taking. Some have taken me 15 years before I got [I]the shot.[/I]" So, don't sweat a bad night. ;) [/QUOTE]
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