By Kristian Wannebo | Opinion
… towards autumn’s end. I have to admit that I stole the title. Tree and Leaf is one of J. R. R. Tolkien’s short stories (published together with his essential essay On Fairytales). It is about a painter and his fate in a strict society – until he departs for the mountains on the horizon. […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion , Travel Photography
Meeting good friends, visiting Paris Photo, touring “alternative Paris”. And trying to decide whether I can live with a phone as my only camera. If the progression in the above mission statement evokes more than a whiff of a “sublime to ridiculous” in your mind, you’re right in exercising a healthy dose of skepticism […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
This stress is one of many options to explain (male) photographer’s constant GAS 😉 Another quick post, to examine a thought that arose after listening to a HiFi dealer interview. My dealer. He explains that one of his customers, an orchestra conductor, owns an old and quite poor audio system. That man reconstructs the […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Travel Photography
After three years marooned in the UK by COVID, airlines and governments that couldn’t form a unitary travel policy, I finally got back to my home near Cape Town in February. The plan was to start emptying the house and put it on the market. Over almost a month, I managed to corral the valuables, […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Is it only when you sell it that you realise that it was worth keeping? I’m only half joking about this. So here’s a less disheartening alternative 🙂 As often when new adventures loom, I’m neck deep in a selling spree. Mostly HiFi gear, but also 3 Hasselblad lenses (XCD21, XCD45, XCD120 Macro, if […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
If numerology has any intuitive value, surely #1234 has to be about growth, right? 😉 3-4 years ago, I purchased my X1D, thinking it would be the camera to end all camera-hunting. Yeah, right. How deluded can you be? 😆 😆 😆 There’s good news about this subject. And there’s bad news. The […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
One of the mottos of (some?) crossfit trainers is “I don’t care about your results, I care about your effort”. Does photography follow the same logic? Imagine a gym where a guy turns up in a linen suit with a robot lifting the weights for him. Thanks to Elon the conqueror, this could be […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
A beloved lost photograph and the opportunity to shoot it again, along with my attempts to emulate film in digital. Above is one of my favourite personal photographs. Ironic, really, as landscape photography usually does very little for me. That photo – the source file – was lost to one of my many backup […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
All of us are photographers. Which means that we look at our craft “from within”. I find it a rich exercise to sometimes take a step back and look at it “from the outside”. One of the values of this is to reconnect with how much photography has to give/offer, and to avoid taking […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
June 4th. 41°C, 106°F on the thermometer, in the South of France. Certainly the hottest weather I remember ever experiencing here, this early in the year. Thankfully, we have a pool. Shadow selfie by the pool Gentle ripples of pure white sunlight diffract in shifting diamond outlines against the pale blue background of 7 […]
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