...In the Right Frame of Mind

If you’re anything like me, you get to your location and your brain kicks into overdrive. Your eyes start scanning the place, hunting for something to shoot. My brain begins to chatter, to compare this place to the last place. It begins to tell me I’ll never find anything here and might as well give up, saddle up to the nearest coffeehouse, and sit for a while. Or I begin to look for that one thing I came for, I get tunnel-visioned, looking for what is not there and missing what is there. It’s so easy to be somewhere and not be present.

“Living in the moment is more than just a principle upheld by the enlightened; it’s solid photographic wisdom.”

Living in the moment is more than just a principle upheld by the ...

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