I just accept the fact I'm not very good at this. This makes it easy to at least try an improve visually. Been shooting for 2 years. I feel good when my vision of an image match's what comes out of camera, very difficult. Other than that, looking over old images is a little embarrassing. Improvement? I don't know, it's more about gaining ground on seeing the image as opposed to taking it. Kind of like the horse before the cart. My mentor retired, moved away, then passed away. He always said, "see the image first, then take it." If you don't see it, it's a snapshot 99.9% of the time. He also would say, "typically, the best photographers are the old film photo journalists because they trained themselves to see the image at a moment's notice, their paycheck depended on it."
