It’s healthy to revisit your past, just as long as you don’t stay there.
Revisiting your past, even if momentarily, allows you to study the nature of you, during that specific point in time and space.
These self-reflection thoughts of your past, often help you better understand your present motivations and intentions.
I think of photography differently than most.
I can’t help it. It’s the way I’m wired.
When I am combing through my archives, personally or professionally, I am, in fact, just like life, visiting my past.
I am circling back on the light and color I, then, enjoyed.
I am self-reflecting on my emotional state of mind at the time.
I am paying tribute to my artful eye and style
I am enjoying, all over again, those same clicks behind the camera.
And, most importantly, at least for me, it’s a frozen-in-time-snapshot, of the technical skills I had at that moment.
Over the past decade, I have shot over 1 million iPhone photos.
Many of them are remarkably Meh!
But still, these ordinary, commonplace, nothing special, middle-of-the-road photos are beautiful windows to a self-reflective study of my soul, skills, and style., in that fullness of time.
Even after 4-decades of compulsive photography practice, I clearly see a steady growth in my attitude and aptitude about life, through photography
“It is your attitude, more than your aptitude, that will determine your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
So, again, in both life and photography, it’s a good thing,. a really good thing, to pay a quick and reflective visit to your past.
But more with an eye toward honor and celebration rather than remorse and regret.
You are, who you are, in the present, because, good or bad, who you were in the past.
The future you awaits.
Click
Jack
