What Photography Is Teaching Me About Writing Music

I don't claim to be a good photographer, but I enjoy it. Cincinnati is a great place to take photos.

But with digital cameras, I take a lot of photos and most of them aren't good.

Here recently, I've become less willing to commit a musical idea to paper - I don't know if the idea is "good enough."

I'm almost always glad to have taken the photo - I can go back later and see if I think it was one I like. I took probably 65 photos that day and you can see the few that I liked the most.

And it should be the same for composition - write down as many ideas as come to me, and I'll figure out later what I want to do with them. Writing down bad ideas isn't as painful as I've built it up in my head to be here recently.

So, enjoy these photos of Cincinnati - I'm going to write down some bad music, and maybe I'll find a few things I want to develop.