Shashin
Well-known member
The virtues of the past will become the vices of the future. The vices of past will become the necessities of today--Joseph Campbell (at least how I remember it)
The world has always been messed up. There was no time in history that was ideal. It might have been ideal for a small group, but it was alway bad for someone--it is a tough time for slave owners in the US, for example. Every opportunity has a down side. Every hurdle has an opportunity. See proceeding sentence.
I really maintain the question. As a photographer, what can you do now? Nothing else really matters. You can only change the realities of your situation. Abstract conditions, whether historical or ideal, just don't exist.
And you have seen this--if only I had that other camera, I had the wrong lens, I was not tall enough, my timing was off, people hate me because I am beautiful. But none of that is really an excuse for inaction. Mostly that points to the condition where you had the "wrong" answer to the situation. Instead of dwelling on what you cannot affect, you really should be worrying about what you can.
The world has always been messed up. There was no time in history that was ideal. It might have been ideal for a small group, but it was alway bad for someone--it is a tough time for slave owners in the US, for example. Every opportunity has a down side. Every hurdle has an opportunity. See proceeding sentence.
I really maintain the question. As a photographer, what can you do now? Nothing else really matters. You can only change the realities of your situation. Abstract conditions, whether historical or ideal, just don't exist.
And you have seen this--if only I had that other camera, I had the wrong lens, I was not tall enough, my timing was off, people hate me because I am beautiful. But none of that is really an excuse for inaction. Mostly that points to the condition where you had the "wrong" answer to the situation. Instead of dwelling on what you cannot affect, you really should be worrying about what you can.