The Creative Gap : From Chase's blog

Like a zillion other people , im a regular reader of Chase's blog , and like a zillion more , i just love his work .The other day i saw this rad post there bout what we call the "CREATIVE GAP " , and i just had to link to it . Heres a teaser :

Heres the question that started it all : "Your pictures are stunning. Mine are not. Not trying to oversimplify this, but how on earth do you do what you do with a camera? I desperately want to move my creativity forward, but it won't seem to budge."

Chases answer : The answer to the question above lies in what I call 'the creative gap.'
The term 'creative gap' is a way of describing the difference between what we as artists can visualize ourselves creating and what we actually create. Sometimes we nail it and the gap is nil. Other times, as you might imagine, there's a huge disparity and the gap is wide. Whether we lack vision, skills, timing, whatever - it can get frustrating to set out to create a masterpiece, and settling for a different kind of piece, if you know what I mean. You envision it like an Edward Weston, but what you get is more like an Edward Scissorhands.

The rest of the post and a great vid at

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2008/06/inspired-bychallenged-by-creative-gap.html