This blog is about photography and design…I promise.
I used to work as a salesman/computer repair dude at a local university bookstore. I talked to hundreds of people and answered endless computer related questions. And I always cringed inside when I heard, “My son is a computer expert, and he said…” (fill in son with neighbor, friend, cousin, aunt). It was then that I made up my own definition of what an expert is
Expert: [n. ek-spurt] A person who presumable knows one thing concerning a particular subject that you do not.
Thus anyone can be an expert.
The widespread adoption of digital cameras has created many experts, and I’m not here to discourage that. We all look to others who know more than us, so that we can learn and grow. We all need people that know what we do not, so that when problems come our way we can find the answers we need.
But let me not fall into the trap of being the expert who is not teachable, who is beyond the magic and amazement that captures me when I capture an image. Let me not know just one thing more than another. Let me seek out all the knowledge that I can every day. Let me approach photography with the enthusiasm and wonder of a child.
I don’t want to be know as an expert.
