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Camera Position 200 : Make Interesting Mistakes

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes and art is knowing which mistakes to keep. Instead of living in fear of “getting it wrong,”  a better, more useful strategy is to keep moving – plowing through the things that don’t work and slowly refining the process to get to the things that resonate for you and with viewers of your work.

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” ~Neil Gaiman

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Luca, Cortona, Tuscany - Photograph by Jeff Curto
Luca, Cortona, Tuscany – Photograph by Jeff Curto

4 thoughts on “Camera Position 200 : Make Interesting Mistakes”

  1. Thanks, Jeff,
    I love this – I feel like I have mastered the art of making mistakes, so it is nice to get some validation. I must be on the right track.

    Looking forward to your talk at MAPS next month.

  2. Congratulations Jeff on your bicentennial.

    When I was very young, I used to stay up late at night making detailed plans. Eventually I discovered that no matter how hard I tried mistakes would be made and things would never come out exactly as I had planned.

    Eventually I learned that these were not mistakes, they were just 100,000 – 200,000 different ways to take photos that were just not exactly as I planned. These unplanned (mistakes) photos were just new ways to learn how to take photos.

    Mistakes are only mistakes when you don’t learn something new. So if you are not making mistakes (and the only way to avoid mistakes is not doing anything) then you are most likely not learning anything new.

  3. Thanks, Joanne, for the comment! I think knowing that it’s “OK to be wrong” now and again gives us a chance to try new things. See you soon!

  4. Thanks, Dean;

    As Woody Allen once said – “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” Like you say here…. embracing the things that don’t work is the way we learn…

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