A wealth of great thinking.

Tune your PC or Mac to the iTunes Music Store – or better yet direct your Apple TV there – and type in the key word “photo” and you will get a wealth of podcasts by famous writers and photographers on our favorite subject.

These are more easily found using Apple TV, one of whose best kept secrets is easy access to a wealth of free podcasts. You can also access these on your computer though it takes a bit more searching. Here, on my Mac, under Podcasts->Visual Arts, is one interesting area:

Some idea of the content may be gleaned from the following list:

Wait a minute. Aren’t many of those interviewed rock musicians? What would they know? Turns out the answer is “A lot” and when you think about it – these are people with well developed right brains oriented to creativity – it makes sense. Two interviews that I found especially interesting were with Graham Nash, who speaks of his photography collecting – and Mick Fleetwood.

I know little about rock but I am aware that Mick Fleetwood has held a famously dysfunctional and ever changing band united under the brand equity of Fleetwood Mac. No mean feat.

So it’s no surprise that one of the best bits of advice I have ever heard on becoming a better photographer comes from the lips of this rock survivor: “Just pick up a f*****g camera!”