George Barr writes at Behind the Lens:

I had written about negative thinking and it’s costs and had casually mentioned that assuming you were going to shoot a masterpiece today was at least marginally better. G Dan Mitchell made the very sensible point that photographers have to believe that they can and will shoot a masterpiece – that we need to believe that to keep shooting.

I’d like to expand on that a bit. I think it’s important to recognize the differences amongst goals, dreams, aspirations, expectations, standards, and intentions.

George has a interesting series of posts on this topic.

… I have a suggestion for Canon in re the “big” 20D/30D/40D question. (You know, the one causing untold neverending shuddupshuddupSHUDDUP existential anguish all over every Canon forum on the ‘net….)

The suggestion: drop it.

That’s right. Drop it altogether. Why does Canon need a camera in between the XTi (400D) and the 5D, anyway? Answer: maybe it doesn’t.