I have something I want you to marinate on for a second. Take this and weigh it. Every time you take a picture, you have the opportunity to share with people how you see things in a way no one else can. But to do this, you need to start seeing things the way a photographer does. You need to train your eye to see things to shoot. The advent of digital cameras and smartphones is absolutely wonderful, and it allows everyone to take thousands of pictures of anything and everything. Still, there is one thing it took away: The scarcity mindset. The kind of mindset you cultivate when you know you only have 12 or 24 exposures on a roll of film. You've got to be pretty sure that the shot you take is a good one, and the way to be really sure that you're taking that good shot is by developing a photographer's eye for things. One of the things I used to do with my old Pentax back in the day was I would frame things up and work out the composition. I didn't have any film in my camera; I
