Miller creative writing

When I was a young boy, I used to go out into the wilderness with my dad for hiking and just the joy of being in nature. Wherever he would go, he would bring his camera. He would be constantly taking pictures, countless rolls of everything he saw that he thought might be worthwhile. Because I was young and impressionable, this is how I learned to set up my photography. I followed my dad’s example and sought out to find interesting ways to capture the way the world looks and functions. It wasn’t until my high school photography class that I really realized the other way to use photography, as a tool for expressing oneself. Our class at first had essentially two types of photographers, the capturing type and the expressing type. Needless to say, both groups had very different ways of taking a picture and we were all, at first, pretty ridged in our styles. As the class progressed, both groups learned to integrate the two styles together, realizing that to be a great photographer, you cant just focus in one realm, you need to be good at both, fluent in both languages of the subject. Through this gradual class wide realization, the more motivated students learned to efficiently use both sides together and reach new levels in their ability and skill.