The Roses of Success

‘To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.’

Leo Burnett

I noticed a Facebook post from my photographer friend Geoff out in the Wild West of Somerset this evening. He’d evidently had an exhibition at the end of last year and was disappointed with sales but also not content creatively. He felt his creative concept hadn’t worked and would have benefited from more time. He decided to reprint the photos in an entirely different way. From the video it was clear he was steadily working his way towards the Grandpa Potts school of thinking…

“From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success”

song lyric from the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

sung by Grandpa Potts played by Lionel Jeffries