Going through flight training in 1943 a to become a Marine pilot we were given many flash photos of enemy aircraft, ships and other scenes.

Sometimes I look at a scene and close my eyes quickly to visualize what I actually saw.

The comments of viewers are almost as interesting as your post which certainly is appreciated.

another semi related bit of advice I recently ran acros which will compliment this article was to ‘eiminate, eliminate, and then eliminate soem more’. The world is generally very chaotic and has many distractign elements in scenes- keep cropping out distractign elements so that the end result shows a strogn subject matter- for isntance- take a church for example- take a photo of the whole church and it’s an ok photo- but lots of distractign elements- you have front of church, steeple, boards ornate decorations, windows, trim, nails, knots in boards, rug in foyer, columns in entrance way, on and on it goes. It can still be a nice shot, but Eliminate soem of this by cropping in to just the door with hte windows and church symbols etc- and you’re narrowing hte focus to a stronger subject- crop in even tighter to the stained glass on the door showign religious figures only, and you’ve still got your ‘church’ subject matter, bvut have elimianted a lot of distractign elements and made a strong subject shot

I ran into htis process of elimination, and scanning technique this fall- drove to a small lake durign changing of the leaves, hadm ountains behind lake, and interesting foreground- the shots were nice, but very typical really- and had lots of ‘chaos’ in the scene- the eye just wandered everywhere rapidly through the scene jumping all over the place- but then I took shots of just the trunks of the distant shore trees, and showed the reflection of the changing leaves i nthe calm water- this proved to be much more itneresting shots- then I eliminated even fuirther shwoign only the reflections with the different colors- made for soem pretty neat abstract shots- the point being that looking at the whole scene- it was hard to decide what to concentrate on- but htem ore i was able to eliminate, the more interesting hte shots became-

Learnign to really see is hard- it takes getting into a scene and really workign htat scene visually- breaking out of our normal way of seeing which like htisw article suggest, just generalizes (and hten we take a photo and wodner why it looks so confused and chaotic)- and forcing our braisn to really see the scene and all the details individually- Itr takes a lot of work mentally- and excersizes like htis article point out can really help start to shape our way of seeing-