Just a heads up.
Since I didn't get yesterday's email out to you on time, you'll probably get two emails today.
But there's a lesson in my lateness.
Since I intended to create the best article that I possibly could, the following article took a while to create because I needed to define what I intended to communicate clearly and then thoughtfully use a keyboard and words to express my intent.
It's the same with our photography.
Since we intend to create the best photographs possible, we need to take all the time we need to define what we intend to communicate clearly and
then thoughtfully use a keyboard and words to express our intent.
Here's the tardy article.
Thinking of Photographs As Good or Bad, Instead of Seeing Them As Interesting Photographs, Kills Our Creativity
A photograph is a photograph.
It's nothing more or less than a recording of light displayed.
A photograph is always interesting, but it doesn't become good or bad until we assign one of those subjective values to it.
And the subjective judgment of something as good or bad are opinions that are usually final and, as final, require no further attention.
But the downside of our final opinion of good and bad is that the object of our interest requires no further attention, curiosity, or wonder.
Once we've decided, we're done thinking about the object of our judgment.
And since we're no longer involved and thinking, we're now stagnant within the relationship to the pictures we see.
And then, boredom and disinterest set in.
Surely, this boredom and disinterest are
the death knell of active creativity.
In short, stagnation kills our creativity.
Thinking of All Photographs As Interesting Photographs Is the Cure to Stagnation
We counter our stagnating judgments with interest.
Usually, we only need a simple
three-letter word to pull us out of our stagnant minds and generate interest.
The word is "why"?
Why why?
That one word sparks our interest, and with interest comes attention, curiosity, and wonder.
So, when we begin to think about why we judge a picture as good or bad, we get bring our attention, curiosity, and wonder back to the photograph, and now our interest reengages with the photograph.
Furthermore, the act of being interested opens the door to learning, and learning leads to knowledge and understanding.
And undoubtedly, understanding leads to an interested, confident approach to camera operation to intentionally make the best photographs possible.
In a nutshell, an interested photographer makes interesting photographs.
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