Finding growth in unfamiliar photographs
I’ve noticed that the photos I spend the most time looking at usually aren’t the ones I would take myself.
That’s not by accident. I do it on purpose. I don’t look at other people’s work to confirm my own taste or to compete. I’m looking for something that pushes me, for moments when I’m not sure what to do next.
Why did I stop pushing the sliders
I used to think that adjusting the sliders was what made a photo powerful. I believed that the difference between an ordinary image and an extraordinary one was just a matter of finding the right combination of settings. Every photo felt like a puzzle waiting to be solved through post-processing.
A year with my camera: what I’ve learned from photography and what I want to explore next
For a long time, I believed photography was all about control—controlling light, composition, and those moments that never seem to pause…
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