Photography

So this is how my mind works. I see a video about an interesting photographic process. I think about the sort of prints I would like to make, so I’m immediately researching Cafenol, daguerreotype, printing, paper costs, purchase lists and so on. So, not about taking photographs, or finding other people who might be about to teach me, just me making purchases to do it myself.

And I really just wanted a print, right? I could just fry this up on a computer. But for some reason I needed to do it from first principles, or not at all.

So now I have a polluted search history, no print, and another gnawing sense of failing to get something done.

Now, clearly doing the photography or buying the print is the thing to do, sure, but I am more asking right now: is it better to not even think things like this at all? A cool idea that never goes anywhere is perhaps better left unthought?