Always Photograph For Yourself

Though you may find your­self shoot­ing pho­tos for other peo­ple, always remem­ber to shoot for your­self as well. Find those things that com­pelled you to pick up a cam­era in the first place. Pho­to­graph things that you love, and don’t worry if any­one else will love them. Remem­ber that even though you have a hun­dred pho­tos of the same sub­ject, you don’t have this photo of that sub­ject at this par­tic­u­lar time. With Isaac, I have to remind myself of this constantly–I have hun­dreds of pho­tos of Isaac, but they are all dif­fer­ent, because he keeps grow­ing and chang­ing (and so do I).

Shoot even though you’re the only one that looks at your pho­tos, the only one that reads your blog, the only one that seems to be pay­ing atten­tion. That’s what marks you, and that’s where you’ll find the soul of your photos.