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.

Art is a subset of creativity.

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is

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

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.

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.