Early in his book “Photographing the World Around You“, author Freeman Patterson tells the story of Alice, a participant in one of his workshops. It’s a bit too long to re-tell here, but later on he provides this summary:

Remember Alice, whom you met earlier; she had so little confidence in her personal creativity that she automatically assumed every picture she made was, at best, competent. In her view, non-creative people canmake only non-creative photographs and, since she regarded herself as having no imagination, she felt incapable of improving her seeing and her photographs very much.

I am Alice…but not as much as I used to be.