SUMMARY

The longer I spend around photography, the more I realize how easy it is to quietly lose sight of why we started taking photographs in the first place. At the beginning, photography often feels simple. You take photographs because you enjoy the process. That shift is where ego quietly enters photography, and I think ego in photography is misunderstood quite often.

TAKEAWAYS

The longer I spend around photography, the more I realize how easy it is to quietly lose sight of why we started taking photographs in the first place.

At the beginning, photography often feels simple.

You take photographs because you enjoy the process.

That shift is where ego quietly enters photography, and I think ego in photography is misunderstood quite often.

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