Calm and Quiet

When Thomas collected his favorite pictures from the past year for his only annual post I also had a look through our year in photographs. A number of my favorites differ from his, but one thing that stood out to me was just how many photographs from the past year I truly loved. When you start any creative project there's this gap between the work you want to create and what you can create. Expertise is not learned overnight and while I devoured the work of Tim Walker and Rodney Smith and others back in my early days of blogging and photography, my work was a far cry from theirs (my work is probably still a far cry from theirs!). It can be incredibly frustrating to have...