Stop Chasing Bangers: What Peter McKinnon's Viral Rant Taught Me About Posting Better Photos

Stop Chasing Bangers: What Peter McKinnon's Viral Rant Taught Me About Posting Better Photos

There’s a trap I fell into for a long time, and if you’ve been shooting for more than six months and posting regularly, you’ve probably fallen into it too. Every photo I shared had to be better than the last one. Every Sunday walk had to produce something jaw-dropping, something scroll-stopping, something worth the caption I’d spend twenty minutes writing. When it didn’t, I’d just… not post. And then the gap between posts would grow, and the pressure would compound, and eventually photography started to feel like a job I wasn’t getting paid for.