Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I haven't picked up my camera almost two months, and I've got a whole list of perfectly "good" reasons why. In this one I'm being honest about the excuses that quietly kill our photography, the ones I keep telling myself, and what I'm actually going to do about it.

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Canon 5D Mark IV - geni.us/Canon5DMk4
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0:00 Intro
0:37 I'm too busy
3:09 Bad weather & the 1st photo
5:09 It's too hard
5:56 I'm too unfit
7:27 Squarespace ad read
9:48 What's the point...& 2nd photo
13:45 I'm not good enough & 3rd photo
15:32 Creative anxiety & final photo