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

As the French film director Robert Bresson once said, “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.

“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange