IOW, in photography, one is, safe to say, striving to satisfy their own criteria as to what qualifies as "good." The sense of gratitude and satisfaction one feels at meeting said criteria is enhanced by the amount of effort it too to achieve. Frustration with the process simply implies impatience.
Jack --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: "The myth of persistence" > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 7:57 AM > On 3/11/2011 8:52 AM, AlunFoto > wrote: > > Interesting essay. > > On one hand he advocates not to persist at something > you're not good > > at, in order to spend time doing things that brings > you more sense of > > achiement. On the other hand, all his examples revolve > around monetary > > reward as the sole gauge of achievement. > > > > Shoots his own logic in the foot, in my opinion. > > > > Jostein > > Jostein, are you trying to say that basically one has to > have criteria for everything: how successful one is, does > one enjoy doing whatever they are doing, how difficult it is > to persevere on a given subject, is there any gain from > persisting, etc. > > Looks a bit like an egg and a turkey kind of question. So, > I take snow scenes pictures (well, I don't, but just to flow > with the underlying motif) and it does not come out right. > Do I have to keep taking them? Well, may be, if I know that > throughout the year (provided, I am not living in one season > over whole year climate zone) I take other pictures, say of > similar grand motif, a.k.a. landscape and they turn out > good. May be I just enjoy the process of shooting out in the > cold snowy weather. They may not sell, I may delete them > afterwards... Am I actually trying to compete face to face > with well known and established artists of the genre? > > Or perhaps I am missing the point entirely here... > > Boris > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
