The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback.

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

My experience says that if you put out a lot of personal work that's good, it tends to attract high dollar commercial work. But to be clear - I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.