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First of all, ditch all the expectations in photography for genre, consistency and specialization. By trapping yourself into a reductive category, you lose your photographic optionality<\/a> (the more options you got in photography and life, the better). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vision means to see (video<\/a> in Latin). Thus do not worry too much about you having to only shoot insanely innovative or unusual photos or compositions. Ordinary photos are fine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Designers make great photographers and vice versa. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also passionate about design, and I transfer and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cross pollinate<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d my design<\/a> ideals and aesthetic<\/a> ethos into my photography (my love and passion for simplicity<\/a>, minimalism<\/a>, and monochrome<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n RICOH GR III<\/a> in macro<\/a> mode as utterly epic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do we aspire to? Simple \u00e2\u20ac\u201d augmenting, improving and raising our visual and artistic acuity to photography. But how does one do that? Some ideas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0310EB19-B47A-4A15-88DD-4B8C961575FA-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308340"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308360,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308340\/revisions\/308360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. You are the visionary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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