I couldn't agree more on the idea of photography and talent. My slight spin on the topic is that most people mistake volume for talent. Spend some cash on a camera and take a shit ton of bad pictures of your ugly pets and all of the sudden you're Ansel Adams that is over-qualified to bore the extended family to death at gatherings.
Trish got perhaps the same auspicious start. As a stay at home Mom, she wanted to take good pictures of her kids. But unlike most people, she actually had some talent and focused on developing a skill. She took classes, and she practiced. Practice doesn't mean just taking pictures. It means a methodical process of taking pictures and learning from the process. Not unlike other finely honed skills, she learned from her mistakes, identified what worked and what didn't, and experimented with different settings.
Combine focused effort and good talent and you get an amateur photographer who actually creates a beautiful product. And that's why we asked Trish to take our family pictures, and we couldn't be happier with the result.
While a minimal level of talent is required, Malcolm Gladwell writes in his book Outliers that the separator of expertise is a very high threshold of practice. So while I may not be a gifted writer or journalist, this blog is a great place for me to practice! So maybe I can some day write songs or craft a best seller.
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