5 Daily Exercises to Help You Become a Better Photographer..

Thank you, Helen!

Thanks, Helen: I just spotted this and looked it over.

I have wished many times that I could follow the advice to always carry my camera with me; however, I lead such a dangerous (and should be photographed) existence that a DSLR wouldn't make it through the first week; climbing in and out of big trucks; operating various trackhoes, backhoes, loaders, forklifts, log-skidders, and the like; handling wild cattle by the hundreds per day; riding half-broke horses in places where angels fear to tred; slinging big tri-axle dump-trucks around as hard and fast as they will go; etc.; etc.

I have witnessed and experienced countless scenes and episodes that should have been documented on film or digital, and not a camera around.

Maybe we should hire a designated photographer to just follow us around.

I even pulled a spell working for Norfolk-Southern, mostly in a huge switch-yard, with thousands of photographic opportunities every day; however, if I were caught with a camera it was immediate termination.


If a person followed those five suggestions there is no doubt that they would become a better photographer.

It must be more will-power and perseverance; it's sure not an abundance of energy and good physical shape.

Some friends of our's cut timber and log it out with big teams of mules; this has been their livelihood all their life.

A few years ago, a guy with a camera asked to follow them around; turns out this guy was Byron Crawford and these old rough-shod logger guys got theirselves on the front cover of the Courier Journal magazine; kind of like the old adage "F11 and be there"