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Take 5 and be Alive

Take a five minute break each day and renew your vision and creativity.  The only way you’ll get better is if you shoot.  The more you shoot, the better you will get.  The more you shoot the more your vision and creativity will evolve.  Five minutes a day, that’s all you need.  So you don’t carry your dslr everywhere everyday with you?  Good.

Pull out your Iphone (At&t or Verizion, it doesn’t matter) and start searching.  It doesn’t matter if your subject is a landscape, saturated color or a detail item,  the important thing is you do the exercise.  You can do it at home, on a walk or in the office.  The beauty of the Iphone, or Blackberry, is that it’s basically a limited camera with minimal control.  The main control becomes your eye.  Learn to see with limited resources and watch your vision grow.  Learn how to be good with this camera and then watch what happens when you pick up your “real” camera.  Watch how you start looking at things different.  You will change.  Change is good.  Have fun, turn your snapshots into art.

More of my work can be seen at www.zwink.com although there aren’t any Iphone photos on it.  They will be on a Iphone gallery soon which I will share.