You cannot photograph the same street twice.

The street is always changing.

Or how about this: you cannot walk the same street twice.

Let’s break it down even more. Old school, baby. Back in the day, 2,500 years ago, Heraclitus said:

“You cannot step into the same river twice.”

The river is constantly changing. The water is flowing. You look at that river one second later and it’s already different.

The same thing is happening on the street.

The light is changing. The shadows are changing. People are coming and going. Everything around us is constantly moving.

You cannot photograph the same street twice.

And it becomes even more powerful once you realize Heraclitus wasn’t only talking about the river changing.

You know what else is changing?

You.

We as humans are constantly changing as well.

So even if you walk down the exact same street tomorrow, the street will be different and you’ll be different.

That’s why I’m talking about this. There seems to be a lot of black pilling in the photography community. People saying there’s nothing to photograph, they live in a boring place, they’re not inspired.

They just need to go to good old Heraclitus.

You can never be bored in life while you’re out here photographing all this beauty.

Look at some vines growing up a wall.

Tomorrow, when I look at those vines, they’re going to be different. Maybe they grew a little bit. Maybe the light is hitting them differently. Something changed.

The world is in constant change.

It’s in constant flux.

Nothing is ever the same. Not the physical environment around us and not ourselves.

We’re always changing.

Therefore, we can literally make infinite different photos, and none of them are ever going to be the same.

It’s wild to think that Heraclitus had street photography figured out like 2,500 years ago, and we still got people dooming all the time about their photography.

You don’t need to black pill any further.

Just study my boys, the ancient Greeks, and it’ll all come into play.

Everything becomes possible.

Maybe old Garry Winogrand was studying Heraclitus.

“Everything is photographable.”

Kind of in the same lane.

I think it’s an empowering message.

With that knowledge, just remember that even this mundane brick wall might look the same today, but tomorrow there might be a little spider on there. Maybe there’s a cobweb. Maybe somebody writes some graffiti on it. Maybe a beam of light is hitting it.

Something will change.

We live in an ever-changing world.

It’s impossible to be bored.