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Alain Briot has been writing a really commendable series here recently, but I feel like there's a missing element. That element is the specifics of how to go about "being creative." This part is often left out, because it's not easy to get your arms around. Ansel Adams wrote, frequently, that a photograph needs to represent the photographer's genuine emotional reaction to the scene. He also spent a lot of time talking about pre-visualization of the photograph. On the subject of getting from one to the other, from that honest emotion to that picture in the mind's eye, however, he is silent. This is essentially the same problem, the problem of how to be creative.
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Andrew became a mathematician about the time the internet became the world-wide-web, but fell in to software development by accident. After 25 years of that he's just Dad. All along, Andrew took pictures, some of them small ones, and formed opinions, some of them big ones. He lives in Bellingham, WA, with his beautiful wife and two small daughters. Andrew's slightly unorthodox ideas for the beginning photographer can be found here: http://intro-to-photography.blogspot.com/
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