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Category Archives: On Exploring Photography
A newsletter!
I’ve shared a new edition of my Substack for the first time in…well, quite a while! This one is a tip of the hat to a collection of photographers whose work I have found particularly helpful and inspiring in my … Continue reading
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Tagged Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, Photography (the subect)
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Inspo
“Inspo” is a word I see online a lot. Obviously it’s a short form of “inspiration”, but it seems to me to imply a more informal kind of inspiration: it’s something that provokes an enthusiastic response, and possibly a desire … Continue reading
Posted in On Bib Overalls, On Exploring Photography
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“Made with AI”?
An interesting controversy fired up on social media over the weekend. I’m not sure where it stands now, but apparently Instagram was…well, let me start with a photo of my own. I made this photo a few weeks ago while … Continue reading
Pan-o-rama
One of the things I’m enjoying about Lightroom (the photo editing software I started using earlier this year) is its ability to stitch together multiple photos in a single panorama shot. The AI it uses to do this is pretty … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, On Exploring Photography, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Buffalo, Photo Posts, Photography (the subect)
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And then, there’s anti-serendipity
Serendipity is great! And it’s great when your skill level improves to the point that you start being able to recognize serendipity as it’s unfolding, and you’re ready for it! But also nice is knowing that the shot is coming, … Continue reading
Serendipity, part two
Getting back to my ruminations on serendipity in photography, which I began the other day: I’m learning that what makes photography difficult as an art is bridging the disconnect between what the eye perceives and what the camera captures. We’ve all … Continue reading
Serendipity, part one
Yesterday I was able to go out and do a photography walk for the first time in a month. We’ve been on a very annoying weather pattern where it’s been rainy every weekend, which has dampened my photography practice. But … Continue reading
Amateur mistakes, I got ’em
We were at Canalside in downtown Buffalo the other day for a greyhound meet-up. It was a lovely time and I took a lot of photos, but I wasn’t super happy with my output, because the light was really bright … Continue reading
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Aurora
If you were anywhere north of, say, whatever latitude it is that the Pennsylvania’s northern border sits on, you were under instructions to get outside and look at the northern sky because the sun was blasting out magnetic particles that … Continue reading
“The personality of the photographer, his approach, is really more important than his technical genius.” –Lee Miller
Sheila O’Malley has a typically amazing post about photographer Lee Miller, about whom I need to learn more because she is fascinating and because of photography: Much of her history was erased through decades of obscurity and a total and … Continue reading
Posted in On Exploring Photography, On History
Tagged History, Photography (the subect)
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