Is this my best photo?

Is this my best photo?

It is if you are to believe the hive mind of Flickr, but I am not sure. Rat­ing your own photo’s, fil­ter­ing out the good from the bad, is pos­si­bly the most dif­fi­cult pho­to­graphic skill in my opin­ion. Nowa­days, with Dig­i­tal Camera’s we can eas­ily take more and more photo’s, we can store them, organ­ise them, and manip­u­late them eas­ier than ever. In order not to be over­whelmed (or to over­whelm oth­ers ) with this vol­ume, we need to choose the best and dis­card the rest. Whit­tling them down to the best of the best is fraught with emo­tional bag­gage, what if’s, “I can fix that…”, and “safe it for later” moments. I really strug­gle with this, and I am guess­ing I am not alone… […]