Don't capture unusual and dramatic events

Musings on Photography posted a short and insightful essay about being a photographer: "Somehow the unusual and dramatic captures our attention, but what makes our lives happy or sad, contented or contentious, barren or fulfilling - it isn’t the extraordinary events, it’s the quotidian things that fill up our daily life. [...] What makes a person a photographer is making photographs, enough photographs that the process is deeply connected to your day to day existence."

I feel the same way. The web, newspapers and tv is full of unusual and dramatic content, but that is not our life. Why I take photographs is because of the usual, the daily, the common needs noticing and remembering. And in a way I also want to avoid the dramatic and the unusual, because I feel that those things are not really what life is about.