When we first got this assignment i thought it was going to be easy. I can talk or write all day. I love to talk and i love to write, but as soon as someone tells me i have to do just that, then all of a sudden, i have nothing to say or write. I have sat looking at an empty blog page for about thirty minutes trying to decide just what to say on here. After sitting here and wasting time thinking i began to realize this exact feeling is what i feel about my photography sometimes. I want to do this but do i really want to do this? Whatever i write anyone can read, just like whatever work i post anyone can see. Everyone tells me that being in photography will get me nowhere just like i was thirty minutes ago, getting nowhere. I was only getting nowhere because i was worried about who was going to read this and what they would say about it. Will they like it? Will they hate it? Will they think it is horrible? Will they think it amazing? Will it inspire them?  I sat here thinking all those thoughts instead of just writing what i wanted to say and not worrying about what anyone else thought of it. I decided it didn’t matter what i wrote about, just that i wrote something, whether it be what i was feeling, thinking, doing, where i was going, or even just how my day went. Photography is just that. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, what people are saying, or what people think. It matters that you go out and shoot, that you do what you want, you show what work you want, you only listen to yourself, you only care what your heart is telling you, what you’re head is telling you, and not what anyone else says. “Realize that you are your own biggest critic. People do not see the faults in yourself that you do. So realize that they are not faults, not imperfections. They make you, you.” – Unknown I think this quote sums up exactly what i am rambling about. Stop worrying about everyone else thinks. Shoot what you want. Post what you want. Say what you want. Write what you want. You are your own competition. The only person you should try to be better than is yourself.