Saturday, December 26, 2015

My Most Profitable camera purchase of 2015. And a nod to a lens that has become an unexpected, almost irreplaceable, ally in the same year.

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I've owned a lot of cameras since I started doing photography full time, as a for profit business, back in 1988. I've run thr...

Getting my mind into 2016.

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I think it's human nature to consider life in temporal chunks. The work week. The fiscal year. The semester. Overtime. The day rate....
Friday, December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas to all my Christian readers, Happy Holidays to my Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Jewish readers, and "Have a nice day without desire" to my Zen Buddhist readers. I hope it's a great day for everyone, whatever your faith or philosophy.

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  I got everything I wanted. The bills are paid. The dog got a bath and Ben came home for the winter break. He smiles just like his dad...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Thinking long and hard about the relevance of "old school" print versus a new paradigm of photographic presentation.

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Just a few thoughts about the direction of the fine art aspect of photography. The litmus test has always been "the print." A phy...

Some predictions for 2016. Some might happen. Most won't be exactly what I predicted. It's harder to predict the future than the past. Warning. Lots of words.

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Kind of a tradition here to make a few predictions about the upcoming year. I'm not skewing into politics or global economic issues s...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Photographer as visual anthropologist (not apologist) and visual story conduit.

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I think I knew this all along but it was veiled by technical considerations in the early days. What I know is that my compulsion ...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Fighting gear acquisition compulsion disorder. How did I do this year?

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I'll be blunt, if I weren't writing huge checks for my kid's college education every six months I'd have bough...