Photograph everything you can think to photograph

Ernst Haas: “There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”

What was Ernst Haas saying? I think he was saying that we need to learn to look deeper in pursuit of subject matter. There is always something to photograph, no matter where we are - even at home or in our home town, where everything is “boring” and we have “seen it all before.”

Photographing the subject(s) you have at hand is a good practice to get into. We can find things to photograph, if we look long enough. Photographing something every day is a good thing.

Not every photograph has to be a masterpiece. Not every photograph must be made to add to an ongoing project or to help build a body of work. Sometimes it’s nice to just take your camera out and snack on visual tidbits you find along the way.

And believe it or not, that’s okay (note to self - are your eyes seeing this as your fingers type it??)