So you want to be a photographer?

Whatever one does for a long time, seems less complicated with the passage of time. You learn the fundamentals, master the craft and then you just get on with it.

Take photography. Today’s cameras do everything for you don’t they?

Well no, no they don’t.

It may be true that some consider photography the basest (read easiest) of the art forms, a bit like the way still life painters used to be looked down upon by the great history painters and portraitists - thanks to the arbitrary rankings of the Great European Academies.

In truth though, photography has not been debased by modern technology, but invigorated and underwritten, unleashing extraordinary talent and creativity.

The switch to digital, has been incredible but, in my humble opinion, we’ve hardly started. There are all sorts of new technologies rushing down the pipeline. HDR, 3D, Holgraphy...

Photography the basest of the art forms? I don’t think so.