>>4443538When the camera becomes an extension of my hands, allowing me to think of how I want to change various aspects of my image, without having to think of how to use the camera to do that, which ruins and interrupts the flow.
The moment I have to turn my attention to the camera, e.g. menu diving, it's over. The flow is interrupted.
I become self aware and feel like a dweeb standing in the middle of the street taking pictures of strangers (because that's what I am and what I'm doing, but in the flow, I forgot about that).
When you're doing photography in the flow, you forget you're human, you forget that someday you're going to die. You forget your girlfriend is probably fucking another guy. You lose yourself, and you become the bliss of photographic ideas and composition.
Once you're forced to remember you're a human with a camera in your hands, that's it, the fun is ruined.
This is photography without mushrooms, btw. I don't recommend it with mushrooms, becomes very weird and psychologically mirror-like.
