How and Why Your Attitude as a Photographer Matters

About Daniel Milnor

Daniel Milnor spent twenty-five-years as a full-time photographer but is currently “Creative Evangelist” for Blurb, Inc. the world’s premiere print-on-demand publishing platform. He splits his time between the smog-choked arteries of Southern California and the spiritual landscape of New Mexico where he’s been known to hike, paddle, climb, ski, ride and explore all the spaces in between. Milnor is a complete and total nonbeliever in social media and feels these platforms have done irreparable damage to human communication skills and attention span while unleashing a level of consumerism the planet simply cannot survive.

Show Notes

I became a better human being when I quit full time photography.
When you’re a professional, you have to think so much about the small details that you can forget to think about other people.
The internet made a huge shift. Photographers began to change their focus from the story of their photos, to themselves.
If you think you’re one of the people who has become a “hater”, do these three things.

1. Call a fellow creative (whether you know them or not) and you’re going to ask how things are going in their creative life (not business). Then you’re going to ask them what they might need to help improve their creative life.
2. Write a letter by hand to someone that inspires you.
3. Take a day off thinking about yourself and your business once a week.