Saturday, November 15, 2025

Last photographs of the day. Over on South Congress Ave. Racks of "Love Locks."

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  Images taken with the Leica SL2-S and the Sigma Contemporary 90mm f2.8. A nice combination for work in low light and work up near the  min...
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Maybe the perfect height for a photographer to be invisible while working is about five feet, eight inches tall. The big, brooding, overly tall seem to have more problems blending in and avoiding unpleasant confrontations. Maybe try not to look so... big?

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  Practicing invisibility at Jo's Coffee. Seems to work fine.  I have photographic acquaintances who seem to have difficulty with a cert...
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How many feet to Jo's Coffee? Just two...

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

As I was recuperating this week I had a crazy thought. What if people who wrote long paeans to old lenses (and new ones) and how glorious they were (and are) routinely supplied photographs taken with those lenses to prove their assertions of optical magic? Wouldn't that be cool?

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  In some ways I tend to be a throwback to a different time. A time in which we were required, in math class, or engineering, to show our wo...
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Try not to let paranoia interfere with your photography. And if you step over the line and get called out for it maybe think twice before reflexively rushing to use your long-tenured sense of entitlement to fix something you created. Too many photographers seem too quick to play the victim card.

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  I have a camera in my hands. I should be able to step around the velvet rope, poke my head into private property --- just gettin a better ...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

I have survived. All systems heading in the right direction. Two weeks till launch and counting down.

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B. I looked around the house and assembled my stuff for my visit to the Austin dermatology practice that houses my dermatologist. I took wit...
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