I realized something while shooting recently. Modern cameras grab everything for you the perfect light, angle, story all in a split second of luck. Anyone with an auto-focus can catch a miracle.
But manual focus is different. You turn, you adjust, you line up light and distance with your own patience. You don’t wait for magic, you build the moment yourself.
The final photo may look similar, but the inner work is not.
Some people wait their whole lives for a superpower to appear. Others simply learn to tune their attention, accept the ordinary, and make it precise.
In the end, the real difference isn’t in the image, it’s in whether you relied on luck or trained your own taste.