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• HT2470 - Enough Camera for the Purpose

  HT2470 - Enough Camera for the Purpose In my life, I've owned and used an 8x10 camera, a 5x7 camera, a medium format monorail camera, 35 mm cameras, twin lens reflex cameras, and over a dozen different digital cameras. To that list I should add a half a dozen phones that have been pretty good cameras. Isn't it interesting that when I look in my finished artwork I rarely remember anything about which cameras used? More to the point, when I go out photographing today, does it make a difference which camera I bring with me? As long as I have enough camera for the purpose, do I need to put any more thought into which camera I use? This RSS feed includes only the most recent seven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2400 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online. Try a 30-day membership for only $10 and discover the literally terabytes of content about photography and the creative process.

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• HT2469 - The Doors Lit My Fire

  HT2469 - The Doors Lit My Fire My generation, like most generations, had their own music. As a child of the '60s and '70s, I had no idea that rock and roll was following the well-established patterns that had been established for decades. I was thoroughly unaware that popular music had a 3½ minute barrier based on the recording medium of the day, 45 RPM records. When The Doors created their extended version of Light My Fire, it exploded a limitation whose ripples still affect my thinking today. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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• HT2468 - Until Spoken Through

  HT2468 - Until Spoken Through One of my favorite quotes about the art life comes from Anaïs Nin who advised "Do not speak unless spoken through." This captures my philosophy of photography in its entirety. I think of myself as a conduit rather than a source; I find it useful to imagine that inanimate subjects have a way they would like to be portrayed; the task of the artist is to feel, not to preach; that photography is about listening to the whispers rather than "chasing the light." I'd rather the light seduce me than be some sort of prey that I hunt. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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• HT2467 - Depreciation Happens

  HT2467 - Depreciation Happens We all know the bumper sticker wisdom that can be politely translated with the phrase "poo poo occurs." That's the sense with which I titled this commentary, Depreciation Happens. The other day I opened a box in the attic and found a Minolta Hi-Matic 9, a 35 mm camera that was originally manufactured in 1966. On eBay, if I were lucky, I might get $20 for this used piece of gear. That got me thinking about all the things I've purchased in my photographic life, not a single one of which has appreciated in value, not even my artwork. The art life is a privilege we must be willing to pay for. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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• HT2466 - Postpone or Intensify

  HT2466 - Postpone or Intensify Photography has the ability to lead us to two completely different relationships with existence. We can use photography to postpone our relationship with the world, or we can use photography to intensify our relationship with what is right before us. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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