Saturday, February 15, 2025

South Congress Avenue on Valentine's Day.

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  A couple sharing a moment, eating ice cream at Amy's. Yesterday was Valentine's Day. It's a silly holiday for all kinds of rea...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Happy Valentine's Day!

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  Photographed in front of Brock's Books in San Antonio's downtown. On Houston St.?  Ancient film camera and a 28mm f3.5 lens from t...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Random photos with an M240 M-E and a Voigtlander 50mm f2.0 APO. A sweet combo. I think John Szarkowski would have approved...

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  photographer ventures out in the frigid Winter blasts. A bone chilling 50°.  Is able to handle his camera even without the protection of t...

A discovery after walking past this hundreds of times over the last 50 years....

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  today was a day for me to make a new and different route for a photo walk. I've exhausted the routes I have pounded along since the st...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

An exercise with which I convince myself that any black and white image can be interesting if you plow in enough contrast and a certain kind of small detail sharpness.

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I've been working on the nuts and bolts of becoming more savvy about not working for clients much. It's a science as much as it'...

Photographer re-discovers, for the thousandth time, shallow depth of field. Firmly resists calling the effect "bokeh."

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  Easy enough to do. 50mm f2.0 lens on an M240 rangefinder camera.  Shoot wide open and get close to the foreground subject.  Pretend you ha...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Taking another stab at understanding Lee Friedlander. Re-posted from the "other site." Pass on by if you already read it there...

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  June 07, 2024 "HOMAGE" TO A PHOTOGRAPHER THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND AT ALL.  Lee Friedlander. Unfathomable or just boring? Cert...