Sliding doors
When have you shied away from doing something because it wouldn’t be perfect?
Would ‘good’ have been a preferable outcome to not done at all?
Sliding doors
An innocuous decision can set off a ripple effect that changes your life, like the butterfly effect or a sliding doors moment. One choice, two directions for your life.
Scene: The kitchen table, rain falling
- It would be wonderful to take good photographs. I’d love to capture the memories of my daughter growing up and our lovely holidays together.
- I can’t afford a big camera. I’m not artistic. My photos are always rubbish.
- The End.
Scene: The kitchen table, windows open and birds singing
- It would be wonderful to take good photographs. I’d love to capture the memories of my daughter growing up and our lovely holidays together.
- I can’t afford a big camera. I’m not artistic. My photos are always rubbish. But I do love looking at beautiful photography. I am going to start following more photographers on Instagram.
- Look! This photographer takes all her photos with the same phone as mine. She doesn’t use an expensive camera.
- Hmmm… these portraits are fabulous. It’s interesting how she fills the frame much more than I do. I need to get closer and make each photo count.
- The golden hour? Let me Google that. Aha! So that is the secret of glowing landscape photography. I need to get up in the hills for sunrise, rather than snoozing through it.
- ‘What’s that you say? I’m lucky to have such nice photographs of my daughter? That I must be so artistic and have an expensive camera?’
Over to You:
- When have you shied away from doing something because it wouldn’t be perfect?
- Would ‘good’ have been a preferable outcome to not done at all?