It's an old photography saying attributed to famous crime scene photographer Weegee.
But it really wasn't until I got a 24 mm wide angle lens in my hands that I truly found my eye.
They still are in many ways.
The ups I usually can’t fully explain because "flow" goes that way. You do the work and accept the results as sometimes being from a different place. The best photos often feel like they came during an out of body experience.
I feel like I go through moments where I wonder if I'll ever make a really good photograph again. And this isn't easy to to put a finger on why, nor is it always a simple fix.
During these times of doubt, I often pick up old (and new) photo books and wonder why I can’t shoot like that?
Zoom lenses slow this process for me. Though I admit truly good quality zoom lenses are great. Sometimes they give too many options when I just need to get to the heart of what is in front of me.
Though I have not yet truly found my 50mm eye, my second day was better than my first in the experiment.
I also realized I wasn't seeing or finding the Cartier-Bresson "moment," or the Kertesz juxtapositions of form and space.