Perfect Gear Goes Against Your Memory

The argument for better gear is seductive because simple: get more sensitive sensors, better autofocus, faster lenses and motors, and you’ll produce better photographs. The problem is that “better” assumes the goal is optical accuracy. Accuracy, in fact, is exactly…
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Perfect Gear Goes Against Your Memory

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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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New Topographics: The Show Everybody Hated

One common advice to novice street photographers is to photograph the same area, near home, over and over again. That would allow them to know the place intimately…

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Project Mid-Life 52 #4

Another week of my mid-life project. I. Body Thanks for reading I may be wrong! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. That is…

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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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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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