The Four Commandments

I had too much leisure time today, but could not leave my desk, so I decided to think a little more about what I wrote yesterday. So, this is all I have learned this far:

1) Shoot with what you have.

A better camera will not make better photographs. Actually, camera does not make a photograph at all, no more than pots and pans are making food. You are. So, grab whatever you?ve got and learn to squeeze the best out of it.

2) Shoot whatever interests you.

There is a tendency to categorize people: landscape photographers, nature photograhers, portrait photographers, etc. Limiting oneself that way can be harmful. But, if you love your subject, that will inevitably show in your photographs and they will be great.

3) Shoot whenever you can.

Chase Jarvis branded a slogan: ?The best camera is the one that is with you?. Your multithousand dollars/pounds/euros worth of equipment won?t do any good if they are lying in your closet. Keep your camera at hand, your mind and heart open and the rest will follow.

4) Shoot for yourself.

Rick Nelson said it in a song: ?You see, you can?t please everyone so you?ve got to please yourself?. La-la-laa-la.

I have to add that I wrote this for myself, despite the third person. The only person that I am able to educate is myself.

Having said this I present this rather boring picture (which was supposed to be raining light) and start to take my own lesson more seriously.