Originally published at brendantaylorfilice.com. Earnestness, uncapped passion, and curiosity tend to produce incredible photos. …

Are you the “friend who is always Snapchatting everything”? Using your phone to shoot fancy Instragram shots is actually a great way to get started, especially to learn the basics of composition and exposure. …

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality…One can’t possess reality, one can possess images — one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977) Photography is an outlet for us to both collect and create history. However, photography is changing. We now are filming ourselves nonstop, with Instagram, Snapchat, Periscope, and other apps that keep us vigilantly connected to friends and family.

Do you find yourself obsessively bringing your iPhone everywhere not so you can text friends, but so you can take pictures of nearly everything you see? Do you run outside every time the sunsets to capture the perfect moment and share it with your friends? Finding your inner photographer is…

Whenever I go anywhere, I see people with their heads down, on their phones. People are playing Candy Crush, swiping left and right on Tinder, and are “Yelping” the best spot for dinner. We’re so addled by our second lives on our iPhone screens. I think most people recognize that…