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With great listener feedback, we needed a follow up to our conversation from last week because we may be much closer to understanding the disconnect between photography and craftsmen. 

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Is the problem simply a matter of changing technology and types of creative output? Can it really be as simple as taking things back to a tangible form? Stay tuned to this Adventure in Creativity and see if the photographic print might hold the key to allowing photographers to finally complete the creative cycle again.

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Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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Why is it so hard for photographers to take a craftsman's approach to their work. Photography seems to miss an essential part of the creative process, craftsmen teach us how to fix that.  

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In his book “A Craftsman’s Legacy : Why working with our hands gives us meaning”, Eric Gorges shares a core truth about what a craftsman does.

I believe there may be real value in finding a way to complete the process of the creative cycle by figuring out how to let the finished work go. 

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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Why is it so hard for photographers to take a craftsman's approach to their work. Photography seems to miss an essential part of the creative process, craftsmen teach us how to fix that.  

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In his book “A Craftsman’s Legacy : Why working with our hands gives us meaning”, Eric Gorges shares a core truth about what a craftsman does.

I believe there may be real value in finding a way to complete the process of the creative cycle by figuring out how to let the finished work go. 

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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Dave sits down with Toronto based photographer, Thomas Skrlj. It’s a fantastic conversation that weaves through the art of searching for the story, developing deeper connections with your work, and the power of just jumping in when it comes to new creative adventures.

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If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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Dave sits down with Toronto based photographer, Thomas Skrlj. It’s a fantastic conversation that weaves through the art of searching for the story, developing deeper connections with your work, and the power of just jumping in when it comes to new creative adventures.

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– Instagram

– Twitter

– Website

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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Last week we talked about how finding time is a huge struggle creatives face. This week let’s tackle the next common struggle, Indecision over which project to tackle next.

While it may seem like a great problem to have, so many ideas that you don’t know which one you should do next, it can actually be incredibly paralyzing for a creative. I want to share with you the simple approach I took when faced with this dilemma a while back that I believe will help you clear that creative log jam as well!

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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Last week we talked about how finding time is a huge struggle creatives face. This week let’s tackle the next common struggle, Indecision over which project to tackle next.

While it may seem like a great problem to have, so many ideas that you don’t know which one you should do next, it can actually be incredibly paralyzing for a creative. I want to share with you the simple approach I took when faced with this dilemma a while back that I believe will help you clear that creative log jam as well!

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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There are any number of very real struggles we face as creatives that prevent us from pursuing our creative passions, but public enemy number one is simply finding time for our creativity.

The good news is that it’s actually one of the easiest struggles to overcome or make peace with and in this episode we’re talking about what it means when we say we don’t have time and how we might be able to fix that. 

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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There are any number of very real struggles we face as creatives that prevent us from pursuing our creative passions, but public enemy number one is simply finding time for our creativity.

The good news is that it’s actually one of the easiest struggles to overcome or make peace with and in this episode we’re talking about what it means when we say we don’t have time and how we might be able to fix that. 

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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That’s right, get notified every time I publish a new article or episode so that you’ll never miss out on any of the discussions on the craft of photography, creativity, visual explorations and so much more! Join the fun, just hit the “JOIN THE ADVENTURE” button in the menu above, the footer below, or right here!

While success in our creative endeavors feels great, it’s actually the act of failing that brings us the most potential for larger long term success. It’s the act of “Failing Forward”.

I was chatting with my good friend Vincent, from the Because We Make Podcast and his fantastic website that includes a shop you really should bookmark and buy from, and he was telling me about a project he had been working on that pretty much bombed at the end of the day. It was using a material that can be a bit unpredictable and finicky, and at the end of the day it just fizzled and failed. 

But he wasn’t feeling upset or down like many of us would when we fail. In fact, he felt like he learned a ton from the project, even with it’s failure, and when I told him that the project was still a success because of that he agreed. In his words he had to just keep “Failing Forward”, because we don’t learn anything from the successes. 

Well, that’s not totally true… There is POTENTIAL to learn from success, but only if you can manage to approach it mentaly so that you don’t just end up patting yourself on the back or stroking your ego. If you can manage to step back and analyze the success the same way you analyze the failure and find things to learn about the process, it lets you add more knowledge to the old noggin for the next project. But it’s usually very difficult to pull anything super useful from the successes, Vincent is not wrong. 

But by embracing the Failing Forward mentality, having the ability to reset after a faiure to take stock of what actually went wrong. Seek out the things that worked well even if the rest flopped, and then figuring out how to do things differently for the next attempt, and you’ll be making progress towards mastery of your craft. No matter how big or small the steps forward are, as long as you are making progress, you are succeeding. 

So fail forward and WHEN you succeed take time to keep progressing forward as you learn how to improve upon what you’ve already done. Remember, failure isn’t the end. It’s just one more step forward in the long march toward mastery of your craft. 

If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there are a couple simple ways to help! First, feel free to use those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below, share with the world what you enjoy! I sincerely appreciate it!

Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Adventures in Creativity”!

Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @davidszweduik, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!

Thanks for listening, see you on our next adventure!

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