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A Weekly Series of Critical Essays By Mike Johnston

The Importance of Working-Method Goals

Scratch most any photographer and you'll find a cameraholic. Some photographers claim to hate cameras, and some love them so much that photography itself becomes a sidelight. 

Most cameraholics have: 

a) more cameras than we need

b) lots of catalogues floating around the house, wending their inexorable way to the top of the toilet

c) more knowledge about cameras we don't own than seems sensible, or 

d) recurrent fantasies about one or more extremely expensive pieces of equipment that we don't own, but would love to. 

Or, in extreme cases, all of the above. 

So when photographers talk about photography, on the Internet or elsewhere, the conversation always seems to center around equipment and techniques. This makes sense. We're all veteran shoppers, and none of us are ever quite satisfied with the equipment we already own. And our fellow p...

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