For now, it will have to do.
While I like most of the latest issue of the magazine I produce, one aspect troubles me. The cover photo I’d taken was adequate, but I keep replaying how I could have done better.
Then my decades of photographic experience kick in. The conditions had been difficult, my time limited, the opportunity unexpected. Given the circumstances, I’d done my best.
Only in the intervening weeks had I realized how I might have done better.
Should I ever face a similar opportunity, I’ll do so with this new perspective. I’ll be equipped to do better.
That’s how it goes for anyone in publishing. There’s always more to learn, new ways to work better.
In the meantime, I can reassure myself that I did my best. For today, that will have to be good enough.
