Simple Is More Than Just Good Enough

I’m of the age that when I buy something major like a lawnmower, a dishwasher, or a new mirrorless camera I want to make sure it is of such quality that it is the last I buy. That it will survive me. That in an unknown number of weeks, months, and/or years it will have survived me and still be in good working order. 

I apply that postulation to the photos I make every day. To every push of the shutter button. To every experience. To every person I meet and every moment that passes in front of me. 

It’s really a very simple idea. I’m looking for memories. Memories to store away. For memories that might stir someone else. Memories that will last beyond me. 

Spending time calculating all the variables that will make a good photograph is wasted energy. It’s wasted time and the destruction of good brain cells to do something that is not a good cause. A waste of creative energy that would better be spent accepting that good photos come from action.  

They don’t come from measuring and twisting and squinting and turning. They come from immersing yourself in the experience and accepting that a simple act of pressing the shutter does more to fill the need to have something that will last beyond you. 

It’s that simple.  

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