One of the upsides/downsides of moving from film photography to digital photography is the significantly increased volume of generated content, resulting in the need to “up my curation game”.
For example, I quickly rejected the photo above of the rail car wheel; it isn’t necessarily a bad photo. It’s simply is a boring photo, and putting anymore editing or creative energy would have an opportunity cost charged against other, better photos.
Effectively curation is a key step for me in creating a body of creative work in photography. Do it well, and I dramatically increase my creative efficiency; do it poorly, and I have created a black hole from which I can’t escape.
Well, I tend to curate my photography quite well—perhaps because I am not so invested in the preliminary work.
Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for my writing. I have dozens (if not hundreds) of ideas, and to narrow these down to the 2-3 projects which should warrant my full attention is no easy task.
Perhaps I need to take a lesson from my photography creative process, and intentionally become less attached to these early ideas, being a little quicker with the delete key (or at least “save it for a rainy day” file)?
Anyway, I suspect time spent critically reviewing my writing curation process will be time well spent.