Be Prepared to do Something

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It seems Jason and I are already starting to playing off of each other’s commentaries. That’s a good thing, though. That must mean we are causing each other to pause and think, and that thinking helps push us forward on our photographic journey.

 Jason’s last post was spot-on: Always be looking; always be ready. Being ready is one key element to making good photographs. As Henri Cartier-Bresson put it, "Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again." Like...

Always Be Ready

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A Day Without Sunshine Is (Not) Like a Day Without Photographs

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Ah, Jason has touched on one of the most important keys to making photographs.  He phrased it as “making the best of a bad situation”. We could also return to his maxim of “Finding Beauty in Everything”.

 

You don’t have to be an avid photographer for long before you hear the virtues of black and white photography preached. What does this have to do with making the best of a bad situation? Before we directly broach that, let’s take a step back to our childhood.

Most all of us had building blocks...

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