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It can take a long time to get an advanced college degree.

To write a decent business plan?

Maybe a month.

We're lookin' at maybe a year to write a book. 
 
But when we think AI can help us do these things in a simple, single prompt, and it doesn't, we believe AI sucks.

If we're looking for human brilliance, AI ain't the place to find it; the human mind is. 
 
Imagine what we could learn and create if we spent an hour or two just learning about one mode of creative expression: for example, photography.
 
From some perspective, automatic exposure mode is photography's version of AI.
 
Whenever we look at photographs representing a body of work of a seasoned photographer, like a professional, we're looking at hundreds of hours of curiosity-filled, intentional, focused learning and work that went into each of those photographs.
 
I'm not saying that each of those photographs took hundreds of hours to make; on the contrary, the photographer probably made those pictures faster than we could pick up the phone and order a pizza.
 
I'm saying that each of those photographs represents the hundreds of hours of studies and practice they committed to before becoming the amazing photographers they are.
 
A lotta photographers think that we can achieve the same level of unique and technique-filled photographic expression that these photographers can create by buying a fancy camera and making our pictures in automatic exposure mode.
 
Pushing a button and letting a machine with an algorithmic basis of creativity do our work for us ain't how unique human creative expression works.

There's a huge gap between AI and the effort of human creativity; don't fall into it.

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The Introduction To Photography class starts soon. 
  
More ways to study and practice photography with me are below.

Call me if you need help determining the best course for you.

I'll help you be a better photographer—study and practice photography with me. 

Currently scheduled classes are below.

Smaller classes mean better learning, so class sizes are limited to 5 participants plus me.

But smaller classes also mean spots fill up quicker, so sign up soon. 

And what if the timing doesn't work for you in any of my scheduled group classes? Private in-person lessons suited to your schedule are always an option.

And remember, we learn and improve by doing, so practice making at least one picture daily.