The Reason Many Photographers Fail

I am and will forever be, a student of everything. I love, and I do mean 100% absolutely love learning; from audio books while driving, to in-person classes, to everything in-between. I study a lot within the realm of photography so outside of work I make it a point to focus my educational efforts on everything that isn’t photography.

I honestly believe that this passion for knowledge is what has helped me to get to where I am today. It is also the same process that has given me the ability to share and educate using frameworks and methods that people find easy to follow.

We have a lot of amazing education slated for SLR Lounge, much of which is going to be relating to our business and non-photographic processes within our own studio, Lin and Jirsa Photography. Since studying accounting and business in college, to working for Ernst & Young, to running our own companies for nearly 8 years, we’ve learned a lot. But, as I continually read and educate myself, I am always surprised by just how much I don’t know. What I know is a drop in a bucket compared to the vast ocean of what I don’t. Perhaps that is what has made me fall so deeply in love with learning and continual progression — it’s limitless.