845. Losing Notre-Dame
A fire in a heritage masterpiece and three personal views on loss.
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#822. A Pwint is born. And the bleak(?) future of #PrintSwap.
With every DearSusan contributor finally running a fully functionnal printer, it’s time to reboot the #Printswap project. Or to kill it off?
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#814. Hasselblad X1D. Black to the future.
There’s a new kid on my block. It’s black, it’s Swedish and it scares the poop out of me. After many months of pining and making co-author Philippe’s life misreable with my constant grumbling about my A7r2’s colours, it was time to man up and put my dollars
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#771. Saturday Quickie – Spring in the Fynbos
Spring’s not quite here down on the Southern Tip, but the fynbos is already showing out and a quick Saturday post seemed like a great idea. We only got back from our Spanish eat-athon (with the UK-based rest of the family) a couple of days
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#770. Printing saga update n°1: the poetry of a b200
GAS update : 10 minutes into my noble printing quest, and I’m out 300 bucks. Snafu. And my next update might be in a while. It all started with the best of intentions: testing. Since Canon printers are known for: being tolerant of longish periods of sleep being easy to
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#760. Nikon Z6 & Z7 : Criticism and praise!
The full release includes: the Z6, essentially a mirrorless D750 and A7 III competitor, the Z7, essentially a mirroless D850 and A7RIII competitor. For comparisons between the two models, check out this link: Nikon Z6 vs Z7 My analysis : In a nutshell, this is a very-low-risk strategy, as
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#742. A great South African has died
David Goldblatt left us yesterday. The scorch marks he leaves on South Africa’s photography, our society, history, our politicians, politics as a whole and the entire mining industry will be visible for decades to come. I first encountered David’s work in the late 1970s, when I bought two
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#721. Finding the week links in photography #1
Welcome to the DS Curatorium. Enter at your own peril. This experiment in content curation has multiple goals, and we would be grateful for any feedback about them. The idea is to provide a set of links to articles, videos or other forms of content we have found
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#707. Rebooting DS
A long time coming, night terrors, sweaty palms, constant fear. But it’s been worth it. I hope. Those of you who are faithful readers will know that DearSusan is a collaborative blog and that 10 of us take turns at writing fresh articles about topics that are dear to us
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#678. Begining DearSusan’s first collaborative project : “Let there be Light”
What’s the main difference between these 4 shots ? Same scene, same period, same camera, same point of view, same lens, same tog. Only the light is different : top-ish & diffuse, from the right, from the left, dull. The effect on the golden trees and the hills
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