Sit in a room with many managers, production employees or engineers and you will hear stories of accomplishment, success, self aggrandizement.

Sit in a room of programmers and you will hear tales of challenging mistakes, over seeing the obvious and laughter at easy fixes to seemingly difficult problems.

Seeing and sharing my photographic missteps, laughing at them, learning from them and sometimes embracing them as artistic options has done more to improve my photography and heighten my joy of photography than all my seemingly perfect pictures combined.

Humility isn’t a detour from craft. It’s the foundation of craft.