[kurtwall]

I've been only been taking photos with a purpose for about three months, so I'm confident when I say I don't have it. While I'm sure I can become comfortable with the technical components of photography, lighting, aperture, shutter seed, focus, and possibly also with some of the mechanical elements of composition and color, I wonder if I I'll ever become fluent with the creative, artistic parts of photography.

I'm a left-brain guy — I do software QA for a living — so my right-brain is retarded and un(der)developed. It's rare that I can envision a shot I want to make and even rarer when I successfully translate that mental image to an actual photograph. People go to art or photography school all the time, but I wonder if those people already have a talent that I might not possess, that sort of artistic imagination can be taught or trained or developed at all.

I'll feel like I've made progress when I can take image I see in front of me and produce a photograph that accurately captures what I see.