I have a CD in my car, Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”. I love the song, saying something for sure and something uncertain, or something we can’t change and something we can wait for… Whenever I was in a bumper to bumper traffic, can’t move an inch in the rush hour, I always put that CD into the player, and told myself: Wait, buddy, we are on the hard journey to home…

Here’s the first part of the lyric:

“How many roads must a man walk down, before they call him a man;

How many seas must a white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand;

How many times must the cannon balls fly, before they're forever banned;

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind…”

Seems time is the only cure for most things: we need time to wait on a young man to grow up; we need time to stop war and bring back peace. While learning the photography, we also need time to practice and to grow up:

How many times must we try, before we can get the exposure right;

How many lens must we buy, before we can have a picture sharp;

How many miles should we drive, before we can find a good scene to shoot;

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind… the answer is blowing in the wind…

Time, patience, practice… Hard journey to photograpy…