What Sherlock Holmes can Teach us about Photography

Last year, I wrote about the art of close observation, inspired by Amy Herman’s book, Visual Intelligence: Sharpen your Perspective, Change your Life. Sharpening and changing your perspective, or the lens through which you see, is a good practice in photography and life.

Later in the year, I read another book on this same theme of visual intelligence – Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes – by Maria Konnikova. Konnikova describes how Holmes used the steps of the scientific method – o...