{"id":1007,"date":"2010-06-16T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2010-06-16T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:46:02","slug":"photographers-and-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/photographers-and-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition Makes Us All Better Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thephotoletariat.com\/files\/2010\/06\/RCL-182.jpg\" alt=\"RCL-182.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, sometimes when I look around and see how well my competition is doing, I get a little bit discouraged. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like my peers, in fact, I&#8217;ve met many of them and they&#8217;re all really good people, not to mention excellent photographers. I&#8217;m genuinely happy that they&#8217;re doing well. However, photography is not an easy gig, and even though my own business is going quite well, especially considering the economy that slapped us all around last year, I always think that I could be doing better. When I gauge the success of other photographers, I sometimes start evaluating my own imagery and my marketing efforts and wonder why I&#8217;m not more successful.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually a good thing, as long as you don&#8217;t let it get you too down. A little competition keeps us all on our toes; it&#8217;s the kick in the seat of the pants that makes us strive to be better photographers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thephotoletariat.com\/why-competition-makes-better-photographers\/\">Click here to read my entire article about photography and competition over at The Photoletariat.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, sometimes when I look around and see how well my competition is doing, I get a little bit discouraged. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like my peers, in fact, I&#8217;ve met many of them and they&#8217;re all really good people, not to mention excellent photographers. I&#8217;m genuinely happy that they&#8217;re doing well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[180,149,181],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}