Tuesday 10 October 2017

Learning to see is not about opening your eyes but having an open mind

Learning to see is not about opening your eyes but having an open mind.
Part of having an open mind is learning Patience, it is an ability to not only wait but to wait while being perceptive and open to possibilities around you, and know that nothing stays the same, if you wait and are patient something will happen. We are often lucky with our captures, I wonder how much luckier we could be with more patience and an open mind.
Patience is allowing yourself longer than you thought it could possibly take to master this craft. The magazines and so called experts never told me it would take this long, and knowing how to operate the camera is just the first step of many that will take a lifetime of patience in a journey that has no destination and always hoping tomorrow it will get easier,  ha sucker, dream on.
A bit like climbing a mountain, when you reach the top of the one you are capable of today, there is another one more difficult across the valley, have you the patience and
open mind to learn the skills so you can climb the next peak or are you all out of patience and happy to wallow in the valley. How will you see the beauty in the next valley, if you can not get over the next peak.
Having succesfully reached one peak, now for the next one, that's even higher and harder, do I have the patience to achieve this goal, do I believe in myself, yes is the answer to that question.

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