Wildlife

"Good photographs come from developing an eye for a picture - not
from using banks of powerful studio lights, whirring motor-drives, or
two-foot-long telephoto lenses. Success requires no more than the
ability to make the essential creative leap from what you see to what
will work as a photographic image. The secret of doing this is to train
the eye to see images that will give pleasure when they are taken out
of the complex, confused, and constantly shifting world and made
into photographs isolated by their frames. Experienced
photographers become adept at identifying interesting images largely
because they spend a great deal of time looking through the
viewfinders of their cameras. Anyone can learn to see pictures in the
same way. Look through the viewfinder frequently, even when you do
not intend to take a picture. Concentrate on what you can actually see
in the frame and how the shapes or colors there work together. You
can practice this way of seeing even when you do not have a camera
with you - remember the old artist's trick of holding the hands up as a
frame? This creative and imaginative process is at the heart of
photography, and the pictures on the following pages emphasize
how much effective images depend on vision itself."

Article from "Kodak Library of Creative Photography".