make your photos speak

Anybody can take a picture. And I do mean anybody can take a picture. In fact, almost anybody can take a reasonably decent picture. There are dozens upon dozens of magazines and websites out there ready to tell you about equipment and how to use it. Information about how to take a technically strong photo is abundant. But…truly good photography is art. It is the art of telling others what you think without using words and doing it in such away that they understand you and feel a connection to you and your work.

If you are passionate, you can learn to be a real photographer and you don’t need a great camera to do it. My goal is to help you find the way to say what you mean and express what you feel and make your photos speak.

Some of what I write will be similar to what is available in other magazines and websites because to speak clearly – you need to know what you are doing but a most of what I hope to share will be about developing your eye and your ability to translate how you see the world into a photo that speaks to others.

So lift you glass for the toast: Here’s to ‘real’ photography.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few,
but exists in some degree in everyone.
Where there is natural growth,
a full and free play of faculties,
genius will manifest itself. — Robert Henri

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