Try, try, give up.

As I’m pushing myself more and more and doing things “outside my box,” I’m learning more about my limits.

things I didn’t think I could do but I can:

- agree to photograph events in areas/venues I’d never seen before

- take photos of people I don’t know without standing 700mm away and around a corner

things I didn’t think I could do and have confirmed that I cannot do:

- ask total strangers for model releases.

For a few months now, I’ve been working with a local non-profit to get photos for their new promotional materials. For the mostpart, this involves them sending me to their various events which I photograph. On occasion, it involves them sending me to public events which I also photograph. But in those cases, I am to come back with signed releases okaying the use of the photos (with their own events, the event coordinators usually handle the releases). Every time, I have completely chickened out and come back with a whopping zero releases. But after today’s event, I’ve just decided that that’s that. I am not cut out for such things and I probably never will be and I don’t care because that type of work doesn’t interest me. I tried, I failed and now I know. So there you have it.