response to the quote for the 1st week

“Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a
photograph. Success depends on the extent of ones general culture, on one’s set of
values, one’s clarity of mind and vivacity”
-Henri Cartier Bresson,
Harpers Magazine, November1961

I think this means that to take a good picture you need to have nothing on your mind, if you focus too hard and think about it too much you'll never like your angle or light and there will always be something wrong, you just have to think about what you want to photograph adn then just take the picture before you can over analyze it, and then maybe later you can look at it and think "damn there was too much light" or maybe you'll just think "good thing I took that picture before sasquatch completely disappeared into that fog"...