Hi ,

Well, it finally happened. 

Last week, nearly 15 weeks out from my rotator cuff surgery, I rode my bike on dirt for the first time since April 29. It was just a few miles on totally flat trails with no bumps, but it was trail riding on my mountain bike, nonetheless, and it felt amazing!!! 

Since then, we've had almost nothing but rain, but now that I'm back in the saddle, I'm looking forward to more trial riding this fall as I continue to progress through my recovery.

Today's Tip - Creativity Ain't Always Perfect

We all have unique creativity personalities and styles, and so the amount of "neatness" that we try to apply to our image making will vary wildly between different people.

Some photographers put a great deal of effort into creating perfectly clean compositions, with no visual distractions of any kind. Others will be ok with a little bit of "messiness," and in may even see a little bit of clutter as something that adds more interest to the viewer's visual journey through the photo.

Of course, neither approach is right, and neither is wrong, but there is one trap that I encourage people to avoid, which is getting too caught up in the process of chasing perfection. 

That's why I made this video, called The Dangers of Chasing Perfection in Photography.

In this lesson, I argue why I feel that the concept of perfectionism is the enemy of creativity, how it doesn't always lead to great images. 

This video is actually one of the lessons in my signature creative course, Photography On The Brain, and I'm giving it to you for free today. 

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In this 30-lesson course, which contains over 5 hours of instruction and insight, you'll explore a wide range of photography topics with me that challenge you to think about creativity and image making in a whole new way. 

I call it Photography On The Brain, because all great imagery begins and ends in the mind. In fact, the entire process of photography requires a combination of creative and technical solving abilities, and involves both left and right brain components. 

In this course, I share with you the very ideas that continue to drive my own fascination with photography. My goal is to help you explore your own creative ideas so that you can gain confidence as you develop your own style and expand your own individual approach to image making.

Through this process, you'll be able to evolve your photography in a way that will continue to excite and motivate you year after year.

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Drawing on over 30 years of experience, this course basically takes you into my own head and shows you my creative approach, and the compositional process that I use to create the very images that you say you like. 

In this way, I let you into my own brain, share the very ideas that fuel my own style, and show you how you can apply those ideas to your own photography.

Each lesson includes a thought provoking assignment that will push your creative ideas and add new compositional tools to your bag of tricks. 

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That's all for now. I know that some of you were in attendance at my Paul's Photo online event last week. If so, I hope you enjoyed my presentation.

Happy shooting and take care!