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You've decided I'm belittling people who are learning.Sure. I learned, gradually. I improved, over several months. By "grabbing shots". Without "kidding myself". Nowadays I sometimes even take the camera away from my eye without taking a shot. Some day, I hope to be able to see the shot without even needing the viewfinder.
I just think it's unhelpful to belittle the processes of people who shoot what's in front of them, and to tell them it's not the way to learn. You can learn that way, and everybody has to start somewhere.
All I can say is you're wrong! You've misunderstood something I wrote, I've explained myself, it's clearly not going to change your opinion. But I will point out that you're wrong if you think I have belittled anyone who's learning.
I definitely did slag off people who put no thought into their photography with the plan they'll be able to create 'something' in PP. I stand by that, it's not photography and those people aren't learning. But it's a million flipping miles away from the process you described that you've learned from.
I'm passionate and opinionated about photography, but I'm also hideously pragmatic! There's no single right way to learn, or to approach a subject. However there are definitely a lot of wrong ways of doing things. I'll definitely let people know when they're doing the wrong things, but if they're doing something 'different' from the way I'd do it, that's fine.
And even if I had been talking about people who were genuinely learning 'belittling' is a flipping massive overstatement. As I wasn't, it's a flipping untruth.