Humbled

Well, last week I took "family pictures" for a friend of ours. I'm sorry to say, it did not go well and I came back quite flustered. First of all, I was really nervous and because of this I overlooked a camera setting which resulted in most of the pictures being out of focus. I also have no experience posing people which would have been helpful when photographing a family with 6 kids! The pictures I took that are not out of focus have at least one child wiggling, screaming, blinking or looking away. I came home feeling very foolish and frustrated and thinking about throwing in the towel. Aaron, good husband that he is, gave me a great pep talk about how it took him many years to learn to do what he does and that he made plenty of mistakes along the way. He told me to just keep at it and it will get better and better. That helped me feel a lot better. Then today I went over the pictures again and identified what went wrong and how I could improve my performance next time. Now that my pride isn't stinging so much I'vedecided to chalked it up to a learning experience and move on. I really hate to fail and when I do, I often want to quit doing what I just failed at so I don't continue to be a failure. However, I don't want this pattern to continue and let it keep me from doing something I really want to do! Maybe I'm not ready yet to play photographer but I'm going to keep working at it until I am.