PHLEARN Magazine

It is easy to keep meddling, tweaking, and touching up to reach that final perfect picture. So, while it might seem impossible to step away and know when your work is finally done, we have five tips to help you enjoy the fruits of your labor and give you the freedom to start the next great idea.

For me, the camera is so much more than just a device that creates images. It’s so much more than just something that exposes a roll of film, or delivers way too many megapixels. It’s a key. A key that opens doors.

I’d like to shed some light on a place I’m certain every single creative person has visited, but very few willingly admit to having been…the creative wasteland found in The Long Middle.

Deep down, I was disappointed. I was letting myself down. It was another project that I was putting in the “unfinished pile”. I knew I had to arrest this downward spiral before it degenerated into total failure.

So maybe you’ve been inspired by Aaron Nace, but when you compare yourself to him you realize he has over a million subscribers and your idea seems an utterly impossible reality.

Once you learn the hard way, that information sticks with you forever. This new outlook informed everything I touched artistically from then on.