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A blog about Denver by YourHub.com Managing Editor Eric J. Lubbers.

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No. 20: Courageously sucking at night photography
Contributed by: Eric J. Lubbers/YourHub.com   on 12/2/2008

I just read this amazing post (link) from Internet Renaissance man Merlin Mann in which he describes his quest to get better at photography, despite having no prior experience at all.

This quote hit particularly close to home for me reading it today, because I was in an eerily similar situation yesterday when I took the photo you see here (emphasis is mine):

"Yeah, I know, it's no masterpiece, but I'm proud of it for reasons of my own. Because, last night, as I was splayed prone in the fog along Taraval Street, I realized I was getting a little better at this.

Not because I'd been magically touched with mythical creativity and skill, but because for a moment I was thinking more about how to use what I'd learned to get a good photo than I was about how I might have looked while doing it. And, that felt like a small turning point."

And that, right there, is how to become a better photographer.


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