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Getting Better: The Crucial Sentence

Are you perfectly happy with your photographs? Do you think you're already as good as you can be? If you're one of these lucky (or deluded!) few, then stop reading: this column isn't for you.
If you're more typical, you may be somebody who's been interested in photography for a long time, knows a fair amount about it, and is reasonably well equipped, but still wonders about ways to improve.
My friends say I'm always qualifying things, but first, a few disclaimers. Tens of thousands of people read this column every week, and I know there are photographers among them who are better, more experienced, more famous, and/or more active than I am. I know this for a fact because I know who some of them are. Okay, so here's the thing: this column may not be for them, either.
Second disclaimer: my personal position about photography as a hobby, activity, passion, or art, refined over twenty years of working with photographers and thinking way, way too much ...

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