I hear ya... luckily moving to Chile and photographing here has given me a great reason to be lazy again... 🙂
Eventually I will edit my NYC stuff as well. I'm getting there... looking at my old books from NYC, there is plenty to chop out, but I still love too many images. My own biggest fan.
John,
Time is your friend. Pressure is B.S. It takes a lot of time and commitment to build a strong body of work. In a way it is best not to get ahead of yourself because a strong foundation is just that.
I have found that now I'm in a position of power because I now have an archive. Being compared to Garry Winogrand because of my disreguard to printing is a good thing. Also time is the best editor.
I truely feel that if anything good happens that it could become really big. I just concentrated on image capture, and then I just learned to print well digitally. My prints today crush the ones you have seen. These prints speak for themselves.
I learned from a Navy Seal that their hand to hand combat training involves just seven connected deadly moves. The moral here is drill things home. The training was installed like a reflex, and when "Zingo" tried to slow it down to teach me, he ended up hurting me anyways.
I think I have made my digital printing one of those deadly moves, the film negatives is another, also my street style is evident in every thing I do to the point I can't turn it off.
Now it is time to connect those moves. It is starting to happen.
I'm sure this is also happening to you, but different. Just be you. Be like me and continue to be a lazy slacker when you can. It pays dividends.
Cal