There is no such thing as a weed.

There is no such thing as a weed. Even Webster defines a weed as a plant not valued where it grows and is usually of vigorous growth. By the same token, I believe there is no such thing as practice for a photographer. To paraphrase Yoda (from the movie “The Empire Strikes Back”), – Do or do not. If you do you are photographing not practicing as you are actually creating photographs. The quality of the resulting photographs may or may not meet your standards or the standards of others but they are photographs nonetheless.

I will say that there is experimentation in photography, where you may try new or different techniques. Similarly, there is no such thing as a weed, I don’t believe there are failed experiments in photography so long as we learn from the experiment. If something was learned the experiment was a success. Additionally, I don’t believe there is a bad day for photography or a bad session for photography. As long as we get out and do it, even if we don’t take a single photograph, the day or session was a success. Why? Because we were out doing our photography. Just because we only got a few or zero photographs we used our minds and our artistic vision to glean out or in what we thought to be worthwhile. It is true that we may have missed something but the mere act of getting out there and looking made the outing successful.