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This week I'm thinking about how we can fit photography into our busy lives.
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Last week as is usual on our Saturday mornings during the summer my wife and I hopped in the car with our 5 year old son, and took him to meet up with his friends for cricket practice.
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I won't attempt to explain cricket to the uninitiated as it's famously difficult to understand if you've never been exposed to it. However, it does involve a wooden bat - more on this later.
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The ground where the practice takes place is a beautiful setting, a wide expanse of lush green grass, surrounded by trees gently swaying in the breeze.
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If the game itself is complicated, at least its setting is easy to feel relaxed in.
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This particular day, the parents were sitting around on the grass chatting as parents are wont to do whilst kids 'do sport'.
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My son came running over to us with his bat in hand. Tripped, and dropped the bat, which then bounced up and whacked my wife on her forehead!
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A total fluke accident that ended up with us in A&E half an hour later with my wife's head wrapped in miles of bandages, as the bat had made a one-inch gash.
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​So what has all this got to do with photography?
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Once we'd been checked into the hospital and they'd given her a preliminary once-over to check she was fine, we had to wait for a few hours for a doctor to come and clean up the wound and give some stitches.
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I'd gone off to find some coffee and as is often the way when I'm confronted with official-looking modern buildings, I am drawn to their shape and form.
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En route to the cafe at the hospital, I found so many interesting things to photograph - I decided to copy William Egglestons approach - react to something I find interesting and take ONE photo of it.
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They aren't the greatest photos ever, but that's not the point.
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​How many times a day have you walked past something you think might make a good photo, and not taken a picture?​
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The more you get into this habit of just taking a photo when the idea strikes you the more you're training your brain to see the opportunity for photography everywhere.
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As a friend mentioned on Signal when I showed her these photos:

I'm not suggesting of course that you abandon your spouse if she's in the A&E to go and take photos! Shana by this point was fine :D
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What I am suggesting is that you try and incorporate taking images as much as you can into your everyday routine. ​
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In this, I find using my photo to be extremely helpful - I always have it with me,
it's quick to use and I'm constrained by its limitations.
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When you start doing this, you'll find that the opportunities for photography are all around you.
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This weekend, as you go to sports practices, shopping malls, or walks in a forest, just surrender to one of the ideals in Ikigai about examining all aspects of our lives and learning how to appreciate the everyday moments we often overlook.

Take photographs of whatever you think is interesting. Don't overthink it, just compose the image, shoot and move on.
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Remember, you're not aiming for perfection, but rather embracing another Japanese ideal - Wabi-Sabi (something I'm working on with my private cohort group at the moment).

I would love to see the results you come up with, please send me some -
[email protected]
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Practice today has been rained off, so there should be no risk of being injured by cricket bats this weekend!
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As I wind up here, please may I ask you for a huge favour.
I have moved my courses over to Kajabi, and want to stress test the system.
So for this weekend only, I'm offering my Authentic Vision Framework for just $9.40 (An 80% discount)
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Have an awesome weekend of photography!
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Alex