Originally shared by Dylan van Graan Good day everybody, During a recent post I mentioned in a comment to Olav de With that I seem to be entering the "dark" period of finding my personal voice in photographic expression. Let it be known that in many respects I'm a perfectionist and one of the main questions I always ask is, "is my final image output a reflection of the reality I experienced". I'm also a creative and I'm finding more and more that I don't particularly like my own current work and I am experiencing a lot of tension regarding this at the moment. The best way I can explain it is like being stuck in mud and you can see dry land a short distance off. Behind me is also perfectly good, dry and warm land and I have waded into the muck to reach creative bliss on the other side. What I left behind represents the beginning stages of learning the art of photography, the apertures, exposure, shutter speeds and the like. The dry land ahead represen...