It occurs to me that step one to fine art photography, camera club photography, snap-shot photography or just for grins photography is getting up off your a----er, couch, grabbing your camera and getting out of the house.

You don’t have to travel to exotic locations.  You can have many folders of images labeled “Back Yard Safari”, “Town”, “Rotary Park”, Liberty Park, Farmer’s Market,  etc.

Go out and shoot pictures, lots of pictures, every day.  Why?  One, because it’s fun. And, two, because you can’t improve your work unless you are producing work.

Look at your pictures and decide which ones you like and which ones you don’t.  Try to determine why you like the ones you do and why the others don’t please you.

Compare the ones you like to the work of others whose photographs you admire.  Ask yourself what you could do that would make you more satisfied with your own work.

Read some “how to” photography books but don’t get too caught up in them.  Concentrate only on what you need to know to succeed in your current status.  Each success will create a hunger for more success and you will learn what you need as you develop.  It’s a lifetime journey.

Soup ParodyI've never been much of a fan of Andy Warhol.
Photographed by window light in the back room of the gallery.