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Don’t compare yourself to anybody else other than yourself – 30 photos I want to improve…

Competing with others makes you bitter, competing with yourself makes you better!

I love to look at pictures and to look at the unique ideas other photographers come up with. Their beautiful pictures of a sunrise or a mountain range, the funny pictures they take of their pets… and so on. But sometimes it frustrated me to see how much better they are than I am.

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5 Reasons to participate in a Photography Challenge

Last year I participated in several year-long challenges to – yes, you guessed it – challenge myself.
One of the challenges was a 52-week photography challenge held by a Facebook group for Photographers.
There were no cash prices. Instead, your picture could be picked to be the header of our Facebook page for a week, and then you would select the next week’s winner.
I was never selected as the winner, but I submitted all 52 pictures.
Some weeks it was easy to submit a picture, other weeks I had to work hard to get a decent shot – and some weeks I almost ripped out my hair because I could not come up with one decent picture.
So, why would I do such a thing?

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