"As long as you are worried about whether or not you will be able to make good pictures, or are concerned about enjoying yourself, you are unlikely either to make the best photographs you can or to experience the joy of photography to the fullest."
Freeman Patterson
Photography And The Art Of Seeing
http://www.freemanpatterson.com/book2.htm
Fear of mistakes is the single greatest enemy of the creative spirit. It haunts me in my business dealings, it looks through my lens, it stands at my shoulder every time I’m on the platform. Constantly it intones, “Don’t take the risk. Don’t try something new. Do it the way it’s always been done.” Again, it’s my photography that shows me the foolishness of this kind of thinking.
Dewitt Jones
Seeing the Ordinary as Extraordinary
http://www.dewittjones.com/resources/seeing_the_ordinary.htm
What Is "Real" Photography?
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What do you think "makes a real photographer?"
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