The Anatomy Of A Photographic Failure

The historic Dixie restaurant. This was the only possible photo of the entrance I could makedue to automobiles parked directly in front of it. The sidewalk was narrow so even an ultrawide angle lens would not work well. I think the front of the building needs a bit more context as the restaurant is in the city's historic district with old buildings all around it. (click to enlarge)I will bet good money that if you post or share your photographs, you don’t send out your failures or ones you consider well below your abilities. The same can be applied to me. I learned early on from a well seasoned photographer friend not to ever send out less than your best images. He said you will be judged by your worst images and people may consider your best images as a result of luck. That is the general rule I’ve adopted over the years.Well, I’m going to go against that advice as I think purposefully showing our failures can be just as important as showing our successful images. Failures can be…