Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. - Garry Winogrand
I agree with that at about a 75% level. If it doesn't catch your eye on some level, you will not photograph it.



Jeff Curto in his History of Photography podcast has been emphasizing that there is nothing left that hasn't been photographed. To me, were left to create if we want to be unique.
It's all been painted, photographed, written.............your job is to make it your own.

You can't 'make it your own' on average, with automatic settings in identical environments.....because there are billions of people in the world that shoot that way; at eye level on automatic settings....so their shot is nearly identical or identical to millions of other shots. These are snapshots. Usually they are no more creative than painting by numbers.

But slow down, change angle, focal points - spend a minute thinking about distractions...composition, the light, the aperture.....this is where the uniqueness lies.

Creativity never had and never will have any limit which is why we are still blown away and will always be blown away by great photography or other great art.