I look at some of the photographers I admire, like Takuma Nakahira and Saul Leiter and Vivien Maier and plenty of others.
I want to be like them. I want every photo to speak, to capture the essence of the moment. The zeitgeist. The Koan.

Scrolling back through my file of keepers, I mostly fall short. Every so often I approximate a little glimpse. Mostly by accident. The harder I try, the more I miss. The closer I focus, the more shallow I expose.

Then I remember not to take the whole thing too seriously. It is perfectly OK, I say to myself, to just post the process. The journey.

Sometimes that journey is just a cute picture of your dog taken at home. On the couch. That’s all I got.
Its enough.