Being a photographer means learning things that will help us grow as an artist. During my first decades, that learning was narrowly focused on the technical aspects of image making. Looking back on those years, I can't help but thinking that I missed so much of the truly important aspects of being an artist. I now wonder how my photography would have progressed if someone has shared with me some of the deeper aspects of being an artist. Then again, maybe they did and I just wasn’t listening.