2024 - things to improve on

[elGordo (Gord)]

Good list. If you can stick to it, you should be happier this time next year.

I already blathered on about my goals for 2024 on this other thread:

Resolutions for 2024?

I use the word “goals”, because New Year’s resolutions are famous for not being kept. And I write them down because of how good I am at forgetting them… Major goals for 2024: plan and shoot large pano for print select and do a workshop or expedition shoot at least one waterfall for shits and giggles, choose a painter and try to emulate the style of their work in shooting and editing shoot a minimum of 10 new locations Edit: this year, don’t completely miss fall! If I actually manage t…

But specifically on the subject of things to improve…

1. Get out promptly when an opportunity presents itself. I missed quite a few opportunities in 2023 because I said “tomorrow” or “next week”, and then the opportunity was gone. For example, I have no shots of what the city looked like when it was blanketed with wildfire smoke, and unbelievably I have no shots from the fall at all.

2. The corollary to the first one is to not let work take over everything.

3. Get out of the city more. The best versions of what I like to shoot are out in the country, so Be There.

4. Get to locations earlier so that it isn’t a mad scramble to be at the right place when the right light occurs.

Sort of sounds like a general “get out and shoot more” list!