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About
I’m a 40 something software engineer. OK, in reality I’m looking 50 right in the eye. I picked up photography over 20 years ago and did a lot of it for many years. Over time, other priorities took over and I neglected it. I recently decided to go back to it and concentrate on monochrome.
Blog
Teaching Photography #4: How Photographs Communicate
Week four combines analysis with continued practice. My niece has been making photographs for three weeks, and she’s developed intuitions about what works and what doesn’t. Now we’ll make those intuitions conscious by looking at strong work and breaking down how it functions.
The Photographer as Interpreter
Photography has a self-image problem, and it starts with the word “witness.” The term has circulated in photographic theory long enough to feel like settled truth. Photographers bear witness. They stand at the edge of events, recording what happens with a fidelity that makes them morally adjacent to the thing itself. The word carries gravity, …
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. Easter holidays maybe. Given the snow I’d think Alps.