What If The Cost Of Machines Who Think Is People
> “What if the cost of machines who think is people who don’t.” — George Dyson (via The Glass Cage [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393240762/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0393240762&linkCode=as2&tag=cjchilvers-20&linkId=
True Story The Nuns Were So Scary At My Grade
True story: the nuns were so scary at my grade school, not even God would mess with them. The above photo was taken after an F4 tornado completely destroyed the school and rectory (on the left). The convent (attached to the school mind you, on the right) was untouched.
I Feel That Snapshots Can Get Close To Capturing
> “I feel that snapshots can get close to capturing the essence of humanity. They are often the visual poetry of the human condition.” — Robert Jackson [http://www.hafny.org/blog/2015/1/robert-e-jackson-american-snapshots]
National Geographic's Photo Engineering Department
This is what I mean when I say interesting photography will continue to evolve through creative problem solving, not automation. National Geographic has always put an emphasis on the most important piece of equipment - the mind of a creative person: > “What happens on the back of a cocktail
Never Miss A Good Chance To Shut Up
> “Never miss a good chance to shut up.” — Will Rogers
Over-valuing Potential
> Cameras are all about future potential. Photography is about past production.
Film Isn't Dead
Make sure if you take part in the analogue film resurgence, you do it for the right reasons: the slow, mindful approach to photography and the emphasis on material output. Pretty much everything else about it is the same gear trap as digital.
Ansel Adams Act Introduced in Congress
> Arresting photographers, seizing photographic equipment, and requirements to obtain permits, pay fees, or buy insurance policies are abridgments of freedom of speech and of the press.
How our photo obsession is threatening our memories
From Linda Henkel Professor, Fairfield University [http://qz.com/317428/how-our-photo-obsession-is-threatening-our-memories/] (via Andy Adams [https://twitter.com/FlakPhoto/status/551147052294762496/]): > When the students took photos, they remembered fewer objects overall and remembered fewer details about the objects and their location in the museum, compared to those they had only
A New Photographer Is Born
A new photographer is born.
