This is the first ever truly good photograph (or so I felt) I took during a photography lesson I did at school. It was taken with a manual black and white film camera. I also developed the film and printed the image onto photo paper myself. I was very pleased with myself.
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance. — Richard Price