Growing Pains

It started about a month or so ago.  I am becoming more disapproving of my work.  Its rough to spend 2 hours photographing someone and get home and look at the images and go 'Blech!!'  It isn't the models or the things that I photograph and people that see the images think that they are fine, but me; I'm not feeling it.

A natural phase in one's quest for mastery is realizing how little you know.  When you start, you learn a lot and experiment and as you look at your progress, you think you know something.  Then all of a sudden you realize that you are ok but there is so much more that you don't know and you see the wide chasm between where you are/what you know and where you want to be.

This point is crucial and frustrating.  It would be easy to quit now and say that you will never be great.  This place of disappointment, frustration, annoyance is what will drive you to something wonderful if you let it.  So, I am hunting for my exit out of this windowless and doorless room; this cocoon and I hope you do the same