No Fidgeting. Ever!

Never needed a fidget spinner. I always have a camera at hand.

A camera where there are multiple shutter speeds to fidget with. Variable f-stops to select. There’s always ISO to consider. Which focal length from which lens? Soft light or hard light at what angle and what about fill light at what intensity? Rule of Thirds or Golden Ratio or Receding Lines or which compositional alignment? Doing it while walking or at rest. Or driving.

All those dials and knobs, and rings, and selectors. Then there’s the mental gymnastics of measuring, balancing, and fudging the ideas and numbers.

There is never an idle hand or brain if you’re a photographer. Even in daily conversation, a photographer is watching the light, the background, the mannerisms, and expressions if not for an immediate photo but being filed away for reference, ready to be recalled when needed.

For an accomplished photographer, all this happens in the background. A stream of consciousness ordering of ideas and plans and actions set to be acted upon in the observable world making photographs that are transcendent echoes of the extraordinary.

These photographs transcend the ordinary not only because of the subject matter but because the photographer's stream of consciousness fidgeting has given them a depth that elevates them above what is visible.

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