How photography can kill your relationships.

Q: HOW DID PHOTOGRAPHY COST YOU YOUR FIRST MARRIAGE? MY MARRIAGE IS FALLING APART, WHICH IS NOT ENTIRELY PHOTOGRAPHY’S FAULT, BUT HAVING A FAILING MARRIAGE MAKES IT HARD TO CREATE GREAT IMAGES.

A: I put more time into working on my photography than working on my personal relationships. Photography will take your time, money, credit ratings, relationships, and sanity if you let it. It will take everything.

It takes two to tango, as they say. There’s always work to be done for both people involved, but if you spend more time on the internet reading about photography, and you max out your credit cards on glass and lights, and you put your relationship in stress because of it, then your relationship is ...

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