Facebook led me to abandon Flickr except to dump phone photos and pictures I wanted to repost elsewhere from about 2008-2011, but I want to come back. I hate the gap in my sets between those years, but I'm not sure I want to spend time uploading the past.

I'm an untrained point-and-shoot photographer. For now, I have no interest in post-processing. I love photography (doing it and looking at it), but I'm not trying to be a "good" photographer per se. I just want to document what I see, decently, but unedited.

Recently, I realized that the difference between "good" art and "bad" art is much less significant than the difference between art and no art. This is life changing for me. I've finally released myself from any kind of self-imposed pressure to take good photos or make good art or even write well. I'm doing 365 for the first time this year, and one of my beliefs it's reenforcing is that a crappy photo is just as important as a good one. If I never gave myself permission to take and post crappy photos (or blog entries), then the good ones wouldn't even exist. They need each other and live in balance.

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