In the same way that it would be almost impossible to master skiing or horse-riding by reading about them, so photography and the art of Seeing is something best learned with practice.
Certainly, you are going to save years of frustration and expensive mistakes by reading about the ideas and techniques that you can find through Holistic Photography; but to really understand the concepts, you will need to apply them yourself.
Martial Artists practice katas or ‘forms’ to improve their overall technique. A lengthy sequence of movements may not have much practical application in a fight, but the muscle memory developed through repetition has been proven to increase performance in the real world.
Holistic Photography presents a series of such exercises that were created specifically to enrich your awareness and enhance your photography skills.
To maximise your learning efficiency, Holistic Photography has been simplified to Four key fundamental areas of understanding, and the exercises are organised in the same way;