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A weekly newsletter where I offer my musings on photography and the photographic process that I developed over my 46 year career as a professional photographer.

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Jay Maisel Taught Me How to See

Issue #277 — Remembering one of photography’s great observers

The Sony RX10V

Issue #276 — The Jack of all trades... Master of None?

I Realized That I Wasn’t Uninspired. I Was Overstimulated.

Issue #275

Your Camera Club May Be Making You a Worse Photographer

Issue #274 — When you start shooting for judges, you may stop shooting for yourself.

What Happens When the Camera No Longer Needs a Photographer?

Issue #273 — Insta360 wants to automate the act of seeing. What might we lose if it succeeds?

The Hidden Threat Lurking in Your Camera Bag

Issue #272 — Counterfeits! That memory card may not be what it claims to be.

Photography Has Become Too Beautiful

Issue #271 — When every photograph is designed to impress, fewer of them have anything to say.

Adobe Is Acquiring Topaz Labs. Photographers Want Answers

Issue #270 — What this acquisition may mean for your workflow.

The Internal Feedback Loop

Issue #269

Seeing Before Knowing

Issue #268 — Looking at photographs without the baggage of reputation.

Skill Still Beats Gear

Issue #267 — A great photo is still made, not bought.

Is It Okay to Steal a Photographic Style?

Issue #266 — Borrowing from another photographer is not the problem. Pretending you invented it is.

What Would Ansel Adams Think About AI?

Issue #265 — He loved tools, but I suspect he would have hated anything that tried to replace the photographer’s judgment.

Where Your Real Voice Begins

Issue #264 — What happens when you stop photographing for applause and start photographing what keeps tugging at you?

The Photographer’s Eye Cannot Be Generated

Issue #263 — AI can make an image. But it cannot notice the world for you.

One Frame of Fame

Issue #262 — Some photographers spend years building a body of work. Others become attached to one image that never lets them go.

Julia Kochetova and the Nearness of War

Issue #261 — Why her photographs from Ukraine matter

Mick Rock and Queen

Issue #260 — When an old photograph becomes new business

Richard Mosse and the Trouble With Beautiful Pictures

Issue #259

Stuff I've Been Reading

Issue #258

The Nature of Photographs

Issue #257