Chapter One. It’s About Vision

Vision is the beginning and end of photography. It’s the thing that moves you to pick up the camera, and it determines what you look at and what you see when you do. It determines how you shoot and why. Without vision, the photographer perishes.

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Fuji X-T1, 21mm, 1/40 @ f/6.4, ISO 640

Florence, Italy. I love architecture and old bridges, but they don’t generally speak to me on their own. Give me a human element to set on that stage and it’s hard to hold me back from photographing it.

Understanding Vision

Vision is everything; the photographic journey is about discovering that vision, allowing it to evolve, change, ...

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