Photography and Rejection II

Garbage

Following on from my previous post on Photography and Rejection I received my ninth consecutive rejection from JPG magazine yesterday evening.  I must be getting better at this rejection thing because it didn't hurt at all this time.  I must have lost all hope because, when I saw the message from JPG in my inbox, there was no moment of optimism that they might have accepted my work this time; I just assumed it was a rejection from the get-go. 

Is that a good thing or not?  Hard to say.  Perhaps this fatalistic reaction just comes from the place I currently find myself in; I've just got bigger things to worry about than getting published in a hip magazine at the moment.  Maybe next month those bigger things will be out of the way and I'll go back to being more effected.  Maybe I have to reach a Zen-like state of the total acceptance of rejection before I can achieve success - more likely I'm just full of hog-wash. 

Of course, I continue to submit but I won't bore you with my images for issue 10 - the truth is I don't want you to see by blatant pandering to the the magazine's founders as I get more desperate.  Congrats to all who did get accepted - commiserations to the rest of of ... again.