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Persuasive Speech On Photography

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My friends hadn’t really helped me it turns out. Instead they had asphyxiated my growth for a long period of time, by giving me ego boosting advice. Our friends and family often end up doing us this same dis service, creating self-defeating behavior. If we see ourselves as good photographers because our friends say so, we then become afraid to try new things and be seen by friends and family as being a failure.
We therefore resign ourselves to playing it safe, refusing to grow our skills, and instead just keep on taking the kinds of images that bolster our fragile little ego.
We do not see that we stop ourselves at our current level of photography skills when we photograph in the pursuit of praise from others.
We all make choices in our lives. Many times, throughout life we choose to better ourselves. And often do in many areas of our lives in regards to improving our health, our career skills, our living conditions, and our financial well-being. So then why is it that the vast majority of us put little to no thought or effort into improving our photography skills?
We begin our personal photographic journey knowing nothing, knowledge is not innate.
When we realize that photography is hard and doing it well is even harder, we can only succeed by doing the difficult yet long lasting work of improving ourselves through a gathering and compiling of photographic knowledge and techniques.
The pursuit of photographic excellence and mastery is not the destination.
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