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.

Hanoi, Vietnam. I have a thing for decaying walls and man-made stuff, perhaps because it speaks to the temporary nature of all we do. Or it could be just the texture and color.

Canon 5D, 40mm, 1/50 @ f/5.6, ISO 640

“Without vision, the photographer perishes.”

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

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