Lenses,

Do you just settle for what is?

Or do you keep pushing?

Accepting that what you have done, is the best it can ever be?

Or keep pushing yourself to the point where almost anything stops impressing you?

I never was one for the first option, to me that is like giving up or never aiming for anything.

There are downsides of course, there are with anything,

Each gain becomes smaller, every leap shallower, the steps almost none existent.

However each one conspires to something far bigger,

An end goal that many will never understand,

This is the dedication of an artist,

Neither willing nor capable of compromise,

I never wanted to start using editing and to this day still refuse to,

To me editing is just masking poor craftsmanship,

I can't imagine much worse than polishing something that is already substandard in my own eyes.

If I see it as mediocre, why should I expect anyone else to be inspired by it?

However every once in a while, something quite wonderful happens, a big change in direction, a moment of unparalleled clarity and brilliance in some ways.

The main downside is that once this moment comes to pass, everything that comes after changes drastically and all that came before, well what happens with that stays with me.