Do we concentrate on past work too much?

Something I talked about a few days ago was keeping too many photographs from the past that thus far have never been shared or viewed past the initial time they were taken. Are we concentrating too much on the past and not enough on the present or future work? Maybe, I have found that I go through previous work far more than I consider new work. There is a small percentage of photographs that I cannot re-create and most of those are family trips and members of my family. Most everything else I can retake and likely do a better job if I were to concentrate on the present and the future. I don’t believe we should forget the past or rid ourselves of previous work because it is often important to remember.

I am beginning to believe that this mindset is holding me back because I can just go back through my photographs and “find” something rather than create new and improved images. It is time to move onward and create new.