Even more than most creative media, photography poses a special challenge to shoot beyond the cliches, to discover – to "see" – something one had not been expecting.
As a photographer who's literally spent decades wandering through the natural world with a camera, this observation by Hanif Kureishi is exactly the sentiment I tried to cultivate in my travels:
“As a writer, I don’t like to know too much about what I’m doing. I want to sit down at my desk with hope rather than certainty and be surprised.”