If your picture aren’t good enough, you are not close enough --- Robert Capa 有一次，我在一個淳樸的鄉下小鎮的大街上閑逛著，無意中來到一間破舊的店屋前面，很罕見地看見從高處垂下兩片遮陽簾布，在晨風中微微飄蕩著，很有南洋懷舊的情調。這時簾布中間露出一張老婆婆的臉，滿布深刻皺紋的歲月臉孔，正坐在幽暗的角落裡朝著我安靜地微笑，讓我很震撼，當下我就覺得這副景象適合拍成黑白照。我停下腳步躊躇了幾秒，結果還是邁步走開了，始終無法鼓起勇氣拿出相機上前要求拍照。
入手單眼相機就快滿一年了，這些日子來拍過不少照片，然而到目前為止，對自己的表現則越來越不滿意。我很快就厭倦了自己拍過的東西，渴望尋找不一樣的拍攝主題。
攝影書籍平日看得不算少，取景方式也一板一眼地依照書上的所謂黃金構圖法，把被攝體放在平穩的定點上，意圖營造完美構圖等等。然而照片裏頭卻總像缺乏什麼要緊的東西，一些自己欲速則不達的事物，或甚至隱藏著連自己亦無法知悉的疑點。畢竟書籍只是提供知識選擇，有時候并非必然，應該適時拋開書本的束縛，細心體驗生活才是上策。
Hey girls, gather round Listen to what I am putting down Hey babe, I am your handy man
I am not the kind to use a pencil or rule I am handy with love and I am no fool I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can If your broken heart should need repair Then I am the man to see I whisper sweet things, you tell all your friends They'll come runnin' to me
Here is the main thing I want to say I am busy 24 hours a day I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can
Come, come, come Yeah, yeah, yeah Come, come, come Yeah, yeah, yeah They'll come runnin' to me
Well I’ll be damned Here comes your ghost again But that’s not unusual It’s just that the moon is full And you happened to call And here I sit Hand on the telephone Hearing a voice I’d known A couple of light years ago Heading straight for a fall
As I remember your eyes Were bluer than robin’s eggs My poetry was lousy you said Where are you calling from A booth in the Midwest Ten years ago I bought you some cufflinks You brought me something We both know what memories can bring They bring diamonds and rust
