There’s a whole bunch of people out there who will support you to fight for your limitations. They are not mean or doing it on purpose. It’s mostly an unconscious happening. .

How many of you have experienced some happy times during the pandemic? And how many of you feel a little guilty about those times times your were happy?

Have you noticed the instant you come up with a cool idea it’s almost immediately followed by a huge fuckin’ battalion of reasons …

Sarah’s words got me thinking. I mean … what were the sixties (and 20s) about if not a kind of reaction to the mundane familiarity and inertia of what went before.

Have you noticed that fear doesn’t want us to take risks or experience anything that it hasn’t experienced before.

There is nothing so disheartening than a wounded spirit. Creative hesitancy. Fear of not ‘doing it right’. I’ve seen it at my workshop time and again and it’s heartbreaking.

It occurred to me after one of my recent workshops that the people who benefit most from participating in it are the people who pay for it.

As photographers, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with new surroundings especially if those surroundings have a kind of heightened aesthetic quality.

People are always commenting on the amount of content I post, photography, video, written content, and often refer to it as prolific.

We don’t need juicy cameras to take meaningful images. we need heart, a little bravado and we need to slow down and see what …

Is there anything in the frame that if removed would make it a more powerful image to look at?

Before I go into a shoot or start work on a project and at frequent intervals throughout my day I step into what I (pretentiously) call my ‘Creative Awareness Tank’ …

If you want support to achieve a goal first of all put it out there. Tell someone else about it. At least one other person.