Two feel-good posts

Today I read two blog posts that made me feel good and that I’m on the right track in life and with my photography.

#1
Paul Lester wrote about the small voices that we tend to miss because there are larger subjects with loud voices that gets the attention. This is certainly valid in my photography but the same thinking can be applied on the bigger picture, life in general. Have to think more of this.

#2
I have many times thought that people are getting more and more into the technical aspects around a photo such as how the pixels look. I thought that this maybe was due to that many amateur photographers seems to be scientists their very nature, possibly working with technology of some kind, requiring structure and rigid methodologies. Today I read a post on the blog Serendipities. It was about all these Rules of how good photographs should look and how these leads to conformity. This thing with the Rules has not struck me like this before, haven’t thought of it as being kind of the same thing, a possible consequence of the nature of the people enjoying photography. I’m glad I only know one of these rules, the one with the thirds, and that I really don’t care about it. There’s no need for structure and rules in photography. That is, if the pictures are not meant for advertising and such with tight schedules and strict goals. Then good practices comes very handy. Thanks for the heads-up on this emerging issue.

Tonight it’s Valborg here in Sweden, a holiday we celebrate with bonfires to welcome the spring and the beginning of the summer. I hope to get some good pictures from it, one can hope at least. The park in the picture is when this is written packed with thousands of students and ad other young people, all very drunk. It’s all but idyllic, but they are all  having their times of their life. They believe so, anyway.