My
perspective on learning, practice and education….it’s never done. No matter how good or experienced we think we
are, there is always room to learn more, improve, take your chosen endeavor to
the next level.
For those of
us that are actively learning, what usually happens is that we find an “avenue
of information” that we latch on to….whether it’s a magazine, a blog, a
particular photographer, etc. We pursue
that avenue for a time, learning all that we can from it. Then at some point if we’ve been practicing
our learnings, we grow and develop and the information provided by those
sources are not teaching us as much as they used to.
For example,
a magazine targeted at beginning photographers has more information than you
can handle when you first started out, but now after you’ve learned your
cameras controls and understand basic concepts of light and composition, you
don’t enjoy the magazine as much as you used to, you don’t get as much value from
the magazine as you used to. It’s not
necessarily that the magazine has changed (though it may have), more likely you’ve
changed! You’ve grown and developed to
the point where you’re no longer a “beginner” and the information being
conveyed in that avenue doesn’t apply to you as much as it used to.
If you want
to keep growing and learning, then you need to find a new avenue of insights.
Find new people to learn from, find new materials to read, try a new style of
photography and learn about that. It takes a realization that they existing
avenues are not as fruitful as they once were and a fortitude to strike out
into new lands in search of knowledge.
Don’t get
stuck in a rut. If you want to develop
and grow your photography, grow and develop your knowledge about photography
and then practice what you’ve learned.
Walk with confidence down your current avenues of insights, but don’t be
afraid to strike out onto new streets and don’t be overconfident in comfortable
surroundings. Grow your mind and you
will grow your photography.
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