“Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life ...

... that don’t really matter.” Francis Chan

We got a chance to get out and see a little bit more of the West Kootenays last week in what was perhaps the last time we will use our truck camper here in Canada. Such a sublime part of the world. This shot is looking North along the main arm of Kootenay Lake. I have been doing a bit of thinking about what direction I would like my photography to go. On a more fundamental level what drives one to share their work at all? What does the artist get out of it? To some extent there is so much image saturation in the modern age that it all seems pointless. Yet on another level it seems that there are small differences in perspective that when shared over time produce a valuable difference in world view. Perhaps this logic is nothing more than the delusion summed up by Freud’s “narcissism of minor differences.” Either way, I have been sharing my work for nearly 20 years now, so there must be something innate that drives one to do that.

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