Talent

When I think about what it is that we are all striving for, it is to create beautiful work. But beautiful work isn’t just ‘pretty’. Beautiful work is so, often because of a uniqueness. Either that uniqueness is something to do with the way the photographer saw the composition, or it could be in how they choose to edit it.

A very old image. But I like to think that there were already clues and signs to what I do best.

In my view, we all need to work on ourselves, and the first thing we need to realise is that we tend to do things that others don’t do. Instead of hoping our work will be up to scratch like the work of a photographer we admire, we should really take delight in the fact we don’t do what they do. You do ‘you’. And it just so happens that you do ‘you’ very well.

The problem is in actually knowing which part of the work you create is ‘you’, and being able to understand which parts are your influences as well.

I really do feel that we all have a uniqueness, but it is often masked or smothered by our attempts to be more like someone else, or to aspire to the same kind of look as someone else’s work.

You, my dear reader, have a unique voice. You excel at being you. If you look at it another way - nobody will be able to do ‘you’ better than you do. And with this in mind, since everyone else is taken anyway, why not spend the time trying to find out more about you?