Here's a simple photography rule I have - shoot subjects you love. Simple. I can tell you I have well over a million images on my hard drive of Lainey. I probably have a half million images of farms.

Which camera or film (or digital camera) you use is irrelevant and unimportant. Just take the time to photograph your subject in such a way that transcends how you feel about the subject to your audience. How will you know? Oh - you'll know. It may take you several dozen - maybe several hundred shots - to get it just right.

Try different formats, cameras, lenses, films, landscape mode, portrait mode - try different times of day. I never tire of taking images of Lainey (she's pretty cooperative when she knows peanut butter is waiting for her in the wings) - and you know I never tire of photographing old farms. It's so much easier to try out new techniques on subjects you're so familiar with - and eventually the whole thing just sort of melts together -- before you know it, you know the characteristics of a lens - or a particular film - or light at different times of day - and the best part of this rule is you get to spend more time with the things you love. Just don't forget to share with the rest of us. No other person sees the world quite the way you do - and certainly not the subjects that are so near and dear to you.

Just a thought.

Listening to: Cold Day In the Sun - Foo Fighters

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