- I started taking photography seriously 30 years ago, so I have taken hundreds of thousands of photos. - I went to art school and took a darkroom photography class in college. - I spent years doing part-tume professional product photography at my previous startups which taught me a lot about lighting objects. - I still spend time looking at good photography in books, museums, ads, movies, and analyzing what makes it good. - I have aphantasia so photography is a way I remember things. - I took about 35 photos of this cake slice to find one I like.
“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
Less obviously, one’s photo-a-day catalog creates a large improvement to memory. Just as hearing a few lyrics can recall to you an entire song, having a catalog of photos that spans years allows you to easily recall what was happening say, two years ago this time, or how some project was going, or remind you just how long it took, or that it
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