Pass or Fail

There is a technique to making impressive photographs. If you want to have folks tell you your pictures are excellent, then throw the poor ones away before anyone can see them.

It is as simple as that: Just discard your failures. Keep the successes, and it makes you appear a better photographer.

This May sunrise (5 a.m.) is a picture I should have discarded. It is close to good, but unfortunately it doesn't quite make the grade. I like the colours, I like the idea, but the tree should have been a tiny bit higher. 




I am rather more satisfied with this one, a Kent winter sunset (5 p.m.). The masts interact well with the cold front sweeping in from the south.

So there you go. Get weeding, and throw away the rubbish. What remains will therefore be brilliant.


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