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35, 50

In 35mm, perhaps the distance between observational and participatory imaging is fifteen millimeters.

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Auxiliary Viewfinders

Forget new lenses and camera specs. One of the most freeing things we can add to our photography is an auxiliary viewfinder because it removes precision.

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The Bigger Picture

There are many things to learn. The point of the arts isn’t to make a living doing art. Instead, if done well, we’ll witness the lived reality of the person making something become more widely known.

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HEIC

Who wants to fidget with large raw files? A JPEG is good enough, and now we have 10-bit HEIC.

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Traveling Kind

Art includes the freedom to wander off. If someone says that they want to be an artist, that’s like trying to write words around the unexplainable. Why do it? Explore the unknown.

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In our lifetime

We’re our age for a short while, yet the present touches eternity.

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The problem with mirrorless

Someday we’ll call it a camera with interchangeable lenses.

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35 is a lonesome focal length

A 35mm pushes backgrounds away and magnifies foregrounds.

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Completely covered with graffiti

Old age is the ultimate new cool. Be a little bit of kindness and friendship walking around in the world.

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Heaven

Heaven is out here, working in Odessa.

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Wildly kind and kindly wild

How do we remember a place?

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Burgers, Fries, and Onion Rings

To see a photograph, we must forget that we’re viewing one. To see photography, we must acknowledge mood and atmosphere.

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Studio

A note is a scribble (a few words in a sentence or two); a picture is an individual frame, and a finding blends text with imagery.

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Influence

Despair is progress misinterpreted. Make a stranger laugh. Focus on what you enjoy more than the attention it brings.

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The Rule of Thirds

View something, then around and past it.

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Education

The kids are smart and will do just fine. It’s grown soreheads like me who I worry about.

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Warming

Warming filters, where have you been my whole life? A wide open sky in West Texas creates a blue color cast, and the warming filter, when white balance is set to daylight, removes it.

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Simple Italianate

Simple Italianate houses fascinate me. The City of Cincinnati describes Italianates (1860 - 1890) as two or three stories high, rectangular in plan, with low-pitched roofs. They are brick with metal, stone, or wood ornamentation. A distinctive feature is a cornice. Their design is thin with tall windows, similar to 19th-century commercial buildings.

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Wings on Our Shoes

Freedom is time with your thoughts and knowing they’re not yours. I can color-correct monochrome images exceptionally well, and the worst part of country music is anger in a bottle.

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Lightroom

We need to be clear about what Adobe Lightroom is and not. Lightroom is software that lets us organize, edit, and develop a personal style. It’s not where we will see our camera’s best imaging quality.