A Gift Guide for Photographers

This is a chapter from the book A Lesser Photographer.

Every year, around the holidays especially, photographers are bombarded with gift guides, which often involve a kickback for the guide writers.

Here’s an honest guide of what to get the lesser photographer in your life, with nary a kickback in sight. Refer to this every holiday season:

Education

Workshops from trustworthy photographers and local classes can up a photographer’s game beyond the fastest of new lenses.

This adds experience and opportunity to a photographer’s toolkit.

This is a little trickier. Be discerning. Seek out the masters, but question everything.

Volunteer to do some errands or babysit so the photographer in your life can go out and shoot more.