I agree with you. Some of my old stuff is just pure junk... others I look
at, my taste has changed and I find I like it now, where I would have
discarded it earlier.
Tom C.
From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Keep or delete: more fuel
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:31:32 -0800
I'd suggest that the photographer do whatever the hell he or she wants,
ultimately learning from the experience.
My experience is such: having kept negatives that were "worthless" 30+
years ago, it was wonderful to discover that fresh ideas and new ways of
looking at the images, plush the acquisition of new skills and technology,
have made those worthless images quite valuable, from the perspectives of
being able to make good prints from them and as a point of reference for my
skills and abilities and being able to see things within an image that I
didn't see before.
Shel
> [Original Message]
> From: Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To add more fuel to the "Do you delete/trash your bad shots?" debate I
> offer the following quote:
>
> "As his skills improved he destroyed whole batches of earlier [works] in
> annual bonfires, partly because he found them wanting, partly to force
> himself to further improvement."
>
> from "John James Audubon: The Making of an American" by Richard Rhodes.
