[caption id="attachment_21529" align="alignnone" width="620"] Me with my DSLR, Photo: Casey Cosley[/caption]
As much preparation and study that I put in to the first two weeks of owning my camera, I learned all my biggest lessons and reached my most unsurmountable breakthroughs from just using the darn thing.
I had been telling myself that I wanted to get into photography for too long.
The desire to write often comes over people slowly, over time, like a drumbeat that just keeps getting louder and won’t go away. Maybe you used to love to write as a child, or thought about being a writer when you were in college – but the desire keeps coming back.
Owning a camera doesn’t make you a photographer any more than having a pet goldfish makes you a marine biologist. So how do you go from camera owner to photographer, or even professional photographer?