It's not an exercise in the practice of actually making a photograph. This is an exercise in simply practicing the visualization of seeing a photograph. I just don't want it to record any pictures. metering will work, modes will work, all that stuff. There is a way of making sure that it will still operate completely.

On Cannon cameras, it's shoot without card. And sometimes that's a setting in your camera. I need to insure that my camera can shoot with the memory card out. I'm going to take the media card out of my camera. I'm going to prevent the possibility of getting home with any pictures at all. So to prevent myself from getting home and feeling like I only shot bad pictures. I need to get back into a space of seeing for the sake of seeing rather than seeing for the sake of generating a commodity of some kind that I'm then going to subscribe some value to. It doesn't matter if someone else has already shot it, it doesn't matter if I've shot it. It's just taking pictures its not that big a deal. I've made a photographic process a little too precious. As I said the problem is I'm over thinking it. So, I'm going to offer a suggestion for something you can experiment with by way of trying to get yourself out of this hole that I'm talking about. There's always something new to be found at a location. I live in a beautiful neighborhood in San Francisco, and sometimes I just go out and I can't see anything because I feel like I've seen it all before, which is ridiculous. That happens to all photographers, it happens to me a lot, particularly when I try to shoot in the same locations.

I've gone into my head, I'm overthinking all of this, I need to just get back to taking pictures and I can't find my way back there. And it's going on and on, and you can't shut it up. Everything that I shoot looks like something I've shot before, or it looks like something that I think somebody else has shot, or it looks like a cliche, or it just looks like If you've ever felt this, or if you've ever experienced this, then you know this awful feeling and, it's the problem of having an editor that's sitting right next to your eye, going, ooh, no, that's not a good picture, I wouldn't blah, blah, bleh. No, I am, I got my camera, I'm in this beautiful location, and, I'm shooting.

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