The Helsinki Central Bus Station
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, a Finish photographer, just like me, changes of specialty every so often. If we were kids, people would say that we have ADD: Attention Deficit Disorder and need to take Ritalin (methylphenidate.) Regularly, he took the bus from the Helsinki central bus station. Eventually he noticed that many buses took the same route at the beginning but at time and distance went on, there were less other buses. And eventually, there was only 1 bus that took you from the central bus station to the final destination. You can switch buses all the time, but you get nowhere. He equated it to the career of photographers. He came to the conclusion:
Stay on the fucking bus!
or in North America it's also called
The grass is always greener on the other side
Bus to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland click on image for gallery
- All the money is in micro-stock…
- There's no money in micro-stock, all the money is in weddings/seniors…
- I just need the new Canon 600mm f/4 and I can become a wildlife photographer…
- I just need to buy the brand new Sigma SD1 with the 45 megapixels sensor… and I'll be able to now become a …
How can you get “really” good at… if you don't work at it? Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers: The Story of Success.
The key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.
Pressing the button, aka the shutter, is not a specific task, wedding photography or street photography is a specific task.