Neural misfires from a northern brain

A sort of stream of consciousness of things I collect from t'interweb. Don't expect coherence or anything.

There are frustrations aplenty in the creative life. We work within constraints. We have highs where not a soul could touch us if they tried, and lows where the same is true. In other words, it’s hard enough without on top of that worrying about the size of our talent compared to others, or whether the muse will show up, or if we’ve thought our last creative thought, made our last beautiful photograph. When you get frustrated, just begin. Pick up the camera and do the work. Sit down at the laptop and start the edit. Do the work.

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David duChemin: Do The Work

QFT.

… there’s nothing wrong with the gear. Nothing wrong with poppies either but an opium addiction will probably sideline you pretty good.

—David duChemin on why photographers need to stop buying gear

… don’t get so lost in the f-stops and ISO settings that you miss the point of it all – to discover and express your vision, one frame at a time.

—David duChemin, being full of win, again.

…to sit still is to stagnate, to not move forward is to move backwards, and the antidote to both is simply to learn something new daily. Make it intentional, carve out the time somehow, but learn.