The Open Gate

For years, you’ve followed photography tutorials and Youtube videos. You know the exposure triangle, you know the difference between spot and evaluative metering for all your cameras. You probably a preset pack. Or two. You master the technique. Yet, when…
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The Open Gate

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The Life of Others

I took this photo a good while back. I was arriving in Paris by train, and a commuter train overtook us (for some reason I was allegedly in…

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Latent: digital film camera

I like the film experience very much. I like the limitations of the medium (e.g. fixed ISO), the limitations of the process (e.g. no feedback until you process),…

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Project Mid-Life 52 #6

Another week, another my mid-life project entry. I. Body When I was a kid, I wondered for a while about life lines in your hand. I had heard…

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Paws in the sand

I posted this photo last week as my contribution to Aminus3’s photo prompt: minimal. I thought I might as well explain it here.

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Photos I found #8: Winter Holidays

More photos I found. These are probably late winter/early spring holiday photos in the mountains somewhere in France.…

Photos I found #7: Kids

More photos I found. These feel so much like photos that could have come straight out of my…

Photos I Found #6: Comedia del Arte

This is another of my found rolls of negatives.

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I May Be Wrong
The Conditions for Flow

When I go out to take photographs, it can go two ways depending on location, days, and my…

Perfect Gear Goes Against Your Memory

The argument for better gear is seductive because simple: get more sensitive sensors, better autofocus, faster lenses and…

New Topographics: The Show Everybody Hated

One common advice to novice street photographers is to photograph the same area, near home, over and over…

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Mid-Life 52
Project Mid-Life 52 #5

Another week, another my mid-life project entry. I. Body The joy of having cats is that sometimes they…

Project Mid-Life 52 #4

Another week of my mid-life project. I. Body That is me trying to see what is on my…

Project Mid-Life 52 #3

I was thinking of maybe having themes for each week, but decided against it since it would add…

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Photos Explained
Taking the sun

I took this photo in Paris on a November early morning. I published it in a note previously,…

Headphones

I took this photo at an exhibition in the Quai Branly museum in Paris. The line of headphones…

Waiting in square mode

You’re at the doctor’s for a scheduled appointment. It’s heaving. Even more than usual. Apparently, the temporary secretary…

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