Fewer, but truer

I’d rather make ten frames that matter than a hundred that don’t.

It’s tempting to shoot everything — to come home with a card full of maybes and sort it out later. But the maybes pile up, and the work gets thinner the more of it there is.

So I slow down. I pass on the easy ones. I wait until I actually feel something through the viewfinder, and only then do I press the shutter. Most days that’s a handful of frames. Some days it’s none.

The ones that survive are truer for it. Fewer images, more meaning — that’s the whole trade.