A simple question: why walk?

Sea squirts

I think one of the most interesting organisms we can study is this sea squirt. It’s an organism which does the following:

1. Swims around until it finds an area with good nutrition
   2. Roots itself into the ground
   3. Eats it’s own brain

Essentially the theory is this:

We only need a brain in order to coordinate movement, in order for us to procure nutrition.

Thus perhaps humans have evolved to have a brain in order for us to coordinate our movement and visual sensory perception. Thus if we don’t walk or use our eyes (depth perception), we have no need for a brain.

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For myself, often my best ideas are conceived while walking. I also have some of the most engaging and interesting conversations when I’m walking and taking with my friends, family, or loved ones.

Also if you like to take pictures, of course you need to walk in order to take pictures! I believe if you want to take more photos, you just need to walk more!

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We often use the term “street photography” to describe what we do. I propose a new term: walking photography.

This is what I like about this “walking photography” concept:

1. It doesn’t matter where you live or work, you always have the option to walk somewhere. You can walk around the block of your home, you can walk around your office building, you can walk in the park or the woods, or you can walk around in the city with public side walks.
   2. The purpose isn’t to just take more photos or better photos; the point is for us to walk more because that is what makes us human! The reason why humans are bipeds and have two legs is to walk long distances with little fatigue. The sad reality is in modern times, we actually don’t /need/ to walk much. We can drive nearly anywhere. Walking is the new luxury.

Walking benefits us in so many different ways:

1. Walk more to come up with better ideas
2. Walk more to reduce stress
3. Walk more to clear your mind
4. Walk more to have less back pain
5. Walk more to see more interesting things, and thus have more motivation to shoot more pictures! And the more pictures you shoot, the more likely you are to make a good picture. And the more good pictures you make, the happier you will be!

Walk on,
ERIC