A memo to us when we are good

Oh, how I absolutely love this.
Here’s to the dreamers.

xoxo
Amaris

Can I make a confession? (Of course I can.)

There is a photographer I know on the internet – facebook, Twitter, Instagram – and every time I post any photo I’ve taken, I am painfully and acutely aware that she is there. That she can see. And I wish this wasn’t true, but it is: I am painfully and acutely aware when she says, by saying nothing at all, that I am not good enough.

Farm7

And it makes me mad. But do you know what makes me madder? The fact that I care. That I measure my worth over and over again by the standards of someone I barely even know. That I give one person that much power over me, over how I feel about this dream that I am following.

KJ7

And I have heard other seasoned photographers making fun of people just starting out. People like me. And…

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