Read this with a grain of salt, but it is good for a chuckle and I am sure you can take something away from it.
Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle.
Learn and practice the principles of photography, then break the rules to form your own method of photographing.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
Don’t be constricted by your own training, knowledge and understanding of photography. Be flexible, fluent, adaptable to change, as and when the situation calls for it.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
At the end of the day, photography is never about the craft and the tools, it’s about humanity.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Don’t get caught up in acquiring all the latest, great photography tools. Pick one camera and one lens, and shoot with it 10,000 times.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Don’t copy or emulate your photography idols. Be yourself, be original and draw from your own experience and instincts.
full article here
http://invisiblephotographer.asia/2011/05/28/brucelee-tao-of-photography/
