I like about photography that it trains your eyes. It changes the way you walk, watch and perceive the environment that surrounds you, even without your camera. You’re alert. You’re registering. You discover potential subjects. You imagine various perspectives and point of views (POV) and how they influence the expressiveness of your subject. You’re studying light and shadow conditions and how they change by moving your POV. You’re looking for situations of special interest that are beautiful, funny, sad, rare or otherwise not visible for the human eye, because they are either too fast, too small (macro photography) or too far away (galaxies for instance).

I have all the respect for landscape and wildlife photographers, because they don’t let it happen, they make it happen! They have the passion and abundance of patience to explore the same locations again and again and wait there for hours for that special moment to take this incredible once-in-a-lifetime picture.