This Week’s LIDLIPS
96. Don’t confuse distraction with creativity.
97. There are many ways to cross the chasms.
98. Mistakes happen. Get used to starting over.
99. Listen to the resonance inside.
100. Be prepared for your dreams to come true (at least a few of them).
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This Week’s LIDLIPS
91. Look along the edges to find the in-between.
92. The exotic is easy. The common is hard.
93. Allow yourself to be captured.
94. Ignorance is relative.
95. Creativity mixes with safety about as well as olive oil mixes with club soda.
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This Week’s LIDLIPS
86. Embrace stress as the opposite of apathy.
87. The frames of history are meant to be broken.
88. A camera is not a license to be a jerk.
89. Kodachrome is dead. Long live Kodachrome.
90. If you don’t make a lot of photographs that you didn’t intend, then you’re [...]
This Week’s LIDLIPS
81. The boldest creatives dance on the tightrope when it has no safety net.
82. If you don’t believe in your self, then don’t expect others to believe in you.
83. Sometimes the best way to see something is to not look straight at it.
84. The enslavement of photography as [...]
This Week’s LIDLIPS
76. Ignoring the manual is no longer manly.
77. Play photography as a team sport.
78. Your ‘Decisive Moment’ is still out there.
79. Spend more time shooting that you do reading web forums and blogs.
80. Photography from Tarzan’s [...]
This Week’s LIDLIPS
71. When you’ve got nothing to lose, don’t be afraid to lose.
72. Choose your friends wisely.
73. Listen for answers to questions you didn’t ask.
74. “Thank” and “you” are two of the most powerful words in the universe.
75. If Columbus had [...]
This Week’s LIDLIPS
66. If you follow someone else’s path too long, you’ll lose track of where you left yours.
67. Sometimes “good enough” is better than “the best”.
68. Making yourself vulnerable is a sign of strength.
69. Never hesitate to share your guacamole.
This Week’s LIDLIPS
61. Humor contributes to global warming.
62. Creativity and curiosity are fraternal twins.
63. The more I look at my work, the less I like it.
64. It used to be that photography was just another way to make a mark on a piece of [...]
This Week’s LIDLIPS
56. Hollywood is waiting to teach you how to light.
57. Sometimes it is more important to look like you know what you’re doing than to actually know what you’re doing.
58. Sincerity, humility and gentle persistence can open closed doors.
59. The future is [...]
This Week’s LIDLIPS
51. If your camera was a pencil or a crayon it would be easy to understand its limitations..
52. There are times when you have to hang it all out there – without any understanding of where you are headed or whether it will work..
53. Sometimes [...]
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