Photographers seems to follow one of two streams. One way seems to be an inquisitiveness of the places and things and a wonder of life in general. It seems to me to be a child like thing, a romantic simple joy of taking in a place, and the things that inhabit these places. It might even be a thing of faith, an intuitive thing, as our Lord says, to enter the kingdom of God one has to be like a small child.
The other stream seems to be a cerebral way, it is about ideas, and often referenced to art and photography itself, the art and craft is often done before the photograph is taken, a quote by Jeff Wall says it very simply, some are hunters and others are farmers.
I don't think one can successfully, or it is maybe better to say, find that comfortable natural and ultimately satisfying way by making some choice to follow the fashionable path at the time. It comes down to ones personality, our genes probably point the way. I know from my own experience in former times of being a painter, I was always restless standing in front of a blank canvas, but out in the open air with a sketch book the images seemed to spring up everywhere.
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