Sweden
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There’s A Risk
I know it’s a snack, and there’s a picture on the front, but what is it? G machine to the rescue. Continue reading
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All the sun in the world
The light was gorgeous in the historic city of Gammelstad, Sweden. We were there in the middle of June a few years ago, and the days were incredibly long. At that latitude, I was able to do an available light portrait at about 10 pm at a decent ISO since the sun barely disappeared below… Continue reading
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What An Angle
This angle is a carving from the Nederluleå church in Gammelstad, Sweden, built in 1492. We traveled to visit family in Northern Sweden back in 2017. My wife’s brother lives in Lulea, a town 150 miles from the Arctic Circle and on the Bay of Bothnia. The light at this latitude is so wonderfully different… Continue reading
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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955