Fear of Failure

Martin Edge · Issue 4, Jan 2002 · pp. 44–46

Products mentioned: Nikon 16mm fisheye, Nikon 20mm lens, Nikon F90x, Subal housing, 105mm macro lens, Sea & Sea 120ys flash, Elite Chrome 100

Fear of Failure We all have a tendency to resist to change! I know I do. To accept change for ourselves is to concede that our previous held beliefs and ways of doing things were wrong. In underwater photography resistance to change encourages us to proceed along a familiar road and the more we travel that same road the more comfortable we become with it. In our everyday lives we embrace routine and are often reluctant to challenge our routine and the comfortable, secure lifestyle that many of us lead. We resist and fight the slightest notion of failure and this fear of failure impacts on our underwater photography. We see and photograph underwater subjects already approved as photogenic in diving magazines and books. In the past I was guilty of repeating a photographic success again and again. I would go and repeat images and idea’s I had achieved on previous photo trips. Not in order t…