Starving Artist Ink.

 'Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.'
-Shinichi Suzuki

Something so inspiring, to go back through your work-be it words, paint, photos, projects. And being so impressed with what you did. Knowing that at the time, your confidence was in the bin-that you weren't happy with the turn out, knowing that in the future you'd push yourself, and you would do better.

This week, as I book a photo session-I start to doubt myself. Looking back through past shoots I have done and being so embarrassed, even ashamed to have let these people pay for the pictures-time that they will never get back again..

They say that your first 1,000 pictures are your worst, but I think that we should up that to 10,000. It's all a growing, learning process. You practice and you get better. Every click of the shutter. Noticing light and colour, balance and framing. Paying as much attention to the background as the foreground-but most of all, being free and happy, confidence = success.

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 The above? My very first portrait session. Shot with film from a borrowed camera (thanks Angel!) I don't know why I didn't fear that day, why I wasn't shaking-I believe that we had one roll of film? Uhh…considering that I shoot at the very least 200 in one sitting-I'm surprised that we came away with so many lovely portraits.  Maybe that's just the secret–having some confidence, not questioning yourself, and even possibly limiting yourself to make few mistakes.

My love Thursday-discovering your abilities, talents, and hidden treasures…

'I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas'
-Albert Einstein