It’s not necessarily easy, creating a photograph.  Or a painting, or a novel, or even a good dinner.  But they all require the same things to be successful: (a) practice; and (b) a willingness to fail.  If you are unwilling to fail, you will not challenge yourself to your very limit. You will only try things that are easy and safe.  You might even not try anything at all, ever, because to do so would be to risk failure. Sometimes I don’t like what I create.  Sometimes it doesn’t move me.  But that is not failure.  Failure is when I am not able to create what I envisioned. That’s the essence of editing, which is a skill in itself.

Gary Winogrand famously said “Anything is photographable”.  It’s so easy to delete pictures that you might as well work on as many images as you possibly can, and don’t be afraid to delete the ones which don’t work out.  This one, above, I did while waiting for a lengthy data conversion to complete on my computer, so picked up the iPhone and decided to spend the next 10 minutes creating a picture, and whatever happened after 10 minutes was what the final picture would be.  Practice.  Not failure.  Risk.  Not inaction.