Embrace Imperfection: Finding Beauty in Photographic Flaws

In the pursuit of photographic excellence, we often find ourselves trapped in a self-imposed prison of technical perfection. Sharp focus, precise framing, and optimal exposure become our jailers, limiting our creative expression and emotional connection to the images we create. But what if these supposed imperfections are not flaws at all, but rather windows into a deeper, more authentic form of storytelling?

Making dinner, Madrid 2001. Taken with an early digital camera (Sanyo) from the late 90s in low light, backlit, completely unoriginal.
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Is Substack for me?

I didn’t grow up with social media. I grew up in an era when computers were uncommon and the (public) internet didn’t exist. For example, at the end of high school, I chose to attend a computing exam as part of baccalaureate, even though I had never had a lesson, my high school didn’t have a single computer, and it was one of the first years this could be done, so there was very little material about what to expect (I got 95% without ever knowing why I didn’t get 100%).

Rue du travail: forbidden. An attempt at social commentary.
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Slains Castle

Slains Castle, in Northern Scotland. It is associated with the author Bram Stoker, who was a regular visitor to nearby Cruden Bay between 1892 and 1910. The castle is mentioned in his locally set novels, The Watter’s Mou’ and The Mystery of the Sea:

Slains Castle, Scotland: just stone walls.
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Books

I have tons of books, some I inherited from my great-grandparents, but very few photos of them.

A few books

Canon 350D + Canon 17-55IS

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Rocks in the sea

This is one of my favourite rocks in the sea photos. It was very transient as the tide was coming. A few minutes later they disappeared.

Long exposure of rocks in the sea

Canon 350D + Canon 17-55IS

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