About

A small notebook, kept in public.

I started carrying a camera everywhere the way most people do now — with a phone. For a long time my pictures were fine and forgettable. What changed things was not a better phone. It was paying attention to a handful of simple ideas, one at a time, until they became habits.

This site is where I write those ideas down in plain language, so I remember them and so a beginner can skip some of the fumbling I did. Each guide is short on purpose. You can read one in a few minutes and try it the same afternoon.

Everything here is about working with an ordinary phone and ordinary light. No studio, no expensive add-ons, no complicated apps. If a tip needs a special gadget to work, it does not belong here.

How to use these notes

Pick one guide. Try just that one idea for a week until you stop having to think about it. Then pick another. Skills stack quietly; trying to fix everything in a single photo mostly leads to frustration.