25 Lessons I Have Learned
11. Go It Alone


Unless were doing portraits, taking pictures makes for bad company.

For the most part, any earnest artistic endeavor is usually a solitary creative exercise. You must concentrate and focus all your energies on the environment that offers you its aesthetic milk and honey; otherwise, you’re liable to miss something—an angle, a passing fancy, a contrast of subject, hue or form.


*an uplifting example: David Wyman's The king of swing

*please note: the photographer and the photograph cited do not necessarily reflect the views of the lesson or any other random thoughts of the writer.




Know Thy Selfelesson 10 lesson 12 Persevere