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Stop being a tourist
> The internet and smartphones have made us all tourists, gawking at our own lives.
Words Want Images To Illustrate And Illuminate
> “Words want images to illustrate and illuminate them, while images want words to clarify and contextualize them.” — Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography by David Levi Strauss [http://aperture.org/shop/words-not-spent-today-buy-smaller-images-tomorrow-books]
Orphan Buildings
I’ve gotten a little tired of the abandoned building fad, so here’s something new: the orphan building.
I Still Can't Be Ok With Just My iPhone
> “Life is really enjoyable, and we should be using all of our gadgets to capture the story of that enjoyment and whatever gadget you might use to do that — just make sure you are capturing the right things and not the ‘artsy’ things.”
The Dark Room — The Brooks Review Podcast
Ben Brooks had me on his podcast [https://podcast.brooksreview.net/episode/70] today to rant for a while about photography.
The Dark Room — The Brooks Review Podcast
Ben Brooks had me on his podcast today to rant for a while about photography.
Get People Upset
Merlin Mann (in the latest episode of Roderick on the Line [Episode 116 [http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-116-smilin-alligator.html], at the 25:25 mark]): > “It’s very difficult to efficiently say anything interesting and new and honest without a lot of people getting upset. > People read that
The Demise of Aperture
The Loop [http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/06/27/apple-stops-development-of-aperture/] reported today that Apple has decided to kill off Aperture and funnel all its efforts into their new Photos app. This is the best possible move for Apple and perhaps photographers in general who use Macs. Apple has always played
New Book
I wrote a new book. Sort of. Actually, it’s a book that condenses every post I ever made at the A Lesser Photographer blog into a few dozen easy-to-read chapters. I completed writing on it yesterday and now it’s on to editing, design and publishing (the fun part)
Be a Publisher
Whether you currently label yourself a photographer, a blogger, a podcaster, a writer or even an occasional Twitterer, we’re all publishers now. I believe “publisher” is a much healthier lens to adopt for looking at our work. It forces us to focus on the end product (the image, the