post-venting

I deleted my earlier post because I decided that it sounded so much like a tantrum. So far, things haven't improved. But what the hell, I'm not going to let it bother anymore. Waste of energy and emotion.

Anyhoo, thanks to DA, I found this article on "How to Make Great Photographs". Read it. It's really good.

My favorite part:

5.) FOLLOW YOUR OWN VISION

Don't follow gurus, teachers, me or anyone else. You'll never be better than anyone else at being them. No one will be better at what Ansel did than Ansel, and likewise, no one will ever be better at doing what you do well than you.

Be yourself. Show your passions, don't try to duplicate someone else's.

You have to go out, be yourself, and your own style will develop. Never, ever think that because you like something you see someone else doing to that that's what you ought to be.

Find something about which you are passionate and explore that. If you get off on figurines or wastebaskets or old people or beautiful naked girls or hubcaps or patterns left by tires in the snow or sewage processing plants or cute little animals, go photograph them. There is no right or wrong thing to photograph. Just show us what excites you.

Amen to that!

So, dear Canon EOS 20D, although it would be a nice bonus if I had you, I'm still happy with my little flippy soon-to-be-blinged-out Nikon.