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Stop Making Photos for Photographers

The majority of photos I see every day (on Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, blogs, you name it) are made to impress other photographers. Perfect composition! How did you do that with an iPhone?! That ISO range is INSANE! How boring we must seem to everyone else. You have a gift.

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Which Photo Best Represents You?

My college photography professor, Monte Gerlach [https://www.facebook.com/monte.gerlach.7], emailed me last month to say he was retiring and wanted to put together a gallery showing of his favorite students’ work. He asked if I would contribute a print. I was honored by request but it

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Stare at Your Phone More

A few weeks ago I was at a family party. I’d been wrangling a 3-year old all day and I was exhausted. As he went into a room full of other kids, I took a seat for the first time in hours. Knowing I had about 5 minutes left

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Beware of Formulas

Everyone wants simple, useful steps for becoming a better photographer. We go to the same books and blogs trying to learn techniques to enhance our photos. We want a formula. Publishers are happy to provide the formula. And it seems like a great exchange. We give them time, attention and

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“Mobile” Photography Doesn’t Matter

Neither does DSLR or any other form of modern photography. Photography technology will progress in ways we can’t foresee. But it will progress. Today’s top-of-the-line camera is tomorrow’s relic. Today’s most popular camera (the iPhone) is also tomorrow’s relic. All images from today will be

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5 Good Links

Do the work for free, which (if any) online storytelling platform is for you, what defines a good photograph and should Facebook be messing with journalists’ photos? It’s all in this week’s A Lesser Photographer newsletter.

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"Make Me Nervous"

This week’s newsletter explores why this may not be the time to make a commercial photo book, why it’s always a good time to make a personal photo book, the importance of inefficiency and why John Waters wants you to make him “nervous.”

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Don't be an award winning photographer

The latest issue of the A Lesser Photographer newsletter is out with stories on Google Photos, why you shouldn’t care about photo contests, why you should care about your bad photos and the continued rise of the self-published photo book.

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This Week’s Newsletter

The Best Thing You Can Do When Launching an Idea [https://medium.com/orbital-nyc/on-constraints-exploration-and-chance-cfe46b116c56] “Constraints are a control mechanism buffering against the nature of how ideas work. Ideas like to go on forever, like the party guest who has endless stories to share with you, standing between you and

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Read This Before You Blog

This week’s links: Hugh MacLeod wrote the best article about online publishing in years this week. If you blog, tweet or publish your stuff in any way, you need to read it [http://www.copyblogger.com/vanity-metrics/]. Don’t Quit Your Day Job [http://www.levenger.com/BOOKS-17/LEVENGER-PRESS-BOOKS-238/