{"id":41072,"date":"2016-02-03T04:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=41072"},"modified":"2016-02-03T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:06:29","slug":"so-it-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/so-it-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, So it Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sherack-0327.jpg?quality=100\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41113\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sherack-0327.jpg?resize=800%2C532&#038;quality=100\" alt=\"Sherack 0327\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sherack-0327.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sherack-0327.jpg?resize=585%2C389&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1 585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sherack-0327.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sherack-0327.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sherack-0327.jpg?resize=140%2C94&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It reminded me of a drug deal. Standing behind a booth at an annual trade show, I handed him the dvds and he gave me cash. This is how for years I delivered and was paid for articles for a European magazine (this was long ago when the images were film based and scanned for delivery). After doing this for a couple of year, I got a call one day from the editor, &#8220;what does suck mean?&#8221; (with in a very heavy Slavic accent), he was editing my text I&#8217;d given him. I said, &#8220;Sucks mean that its so bad it has no redeeming value, indescribably bad, not worthy of showing, really bad, stinks and should have never been taken in the first place. It sucks.&#8221; After a long pause he said, &#8220;sucks &#8230; it says a lot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">OK, so your photo sucks &#8230; so what? If you&#8217;re being paid a lot of money to create it, you might have an issue but otherwise, really, so what? For a long time, the word sucks was a permanent part of my vocabulary. Why, because it was used to describe my photography. Who said that about my images? Why, I did! It doesn&#8217;t take much reading or listening to advice for the self doubt to creep in and instantly, you can&#8217;t do anything right and your photos just suck. I still say, so what? If you hadn&#8217;t heard, perfection is boring so if you achieve perfection, not only are you boring but you now have no further to go, you&#8217;re done! I hear on a nearly daily bases from a photographer who&#8217;s peers have said their photograph sucks and they think their world is coming to an end. It&#8217;s not! It&#8217;s part of the creative process so don&#8217;t let it get you down, don&#8217;t take those words or the person who said them seriously and get back out shooting. You&#8217;re not alone, my photos suck too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It reminded me of a drug deal. Standing behind a booth at an annual trade show, I handed him the dvds and he gave me cash. 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