Why is it that old and ruined places look different when one is thinking as a photographer, as opposed to visiting with little else in…
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If there was a way to measure the ratio of quality to price of a photographic lens, then the Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 80-200 mm would almost…
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I left Argentina in 1986, the year of Borges’ death. Although I had lived in Argentina for more than three decades, I did not discover…
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A possible solution to the mystery in “The Beach Murders” . This is one of JG Ballard’s less dystopian short stories, and also one that, to those who lived through it, conveys the feelings of the Cold War during the 1960’s with Ballardian incisiveness.
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There are those instances in which it is impossible to describe something (or someone) without falling into clichés or sounding hollow. When one feels that…
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In my experience, many of those who became interested in photography in the last decade or so seem to think that photographic equipment comes in…
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Are zooms as good as primes? Conventional wisdom says no. But there are at least two problems with this answer. First, what is the definition…
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For many years during the golden age of slide film I owned a Minolta SRT-100 and a few Minolta primes, all of them thoughtlessly given…
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Sometimes one becomes conscious that life has become too complicated, and that it is all one’s own fault. That happened to me a few months…
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