Years ago I heard an interview with a street photographer who talked about letting people walk into his shot. He would position the camera with the framing he wanted and then, as people walked through his frame, he would take the photo.
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I just discovered that the very last line in a movie by the late, great Robin Williams was: Smile, my boy. Sunrise!
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I think it's so important we remember all of the sacrifices that have been made over the years to keep us, and others in the world, free. I wish now I'd taken a photo of the excellent display that was set up in our local hospital auxilliary thrift shop this year - books and paintings and letters and poppies, and of course photographs, one of the best ways to help us remember.
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I was reading a post on Facebook by Red Carpet about the Orson Welles classic Touch of Evil and came across this quote: Welles was rehearsing the now-legendary three-minute opening tracking shot — a single take following a car through a Mexican border town. The crew grumbled that it was "impossible," that no one would notice if he just used normal cuts.
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I was intrigued by the title of a recent Fstoppers article - Stop Using a Wide Angle Lens for Landscape Photography - mostly because I only use a wide-angle about 20% of the time, so maybe I'm a bit of an outlier. The piece was making the point that many landscape photographers default to a wide-angle lens, with the result that they may be missing interesting shots that only a telephoto or mid-range lens would pick up.
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I always love when someone sees my images in a very different way. While I was doing a market recently, a woman was looking at Ride the Clouds when she remarked "It looks like the wind blowing away the bits off a dandelion." Brilliant!
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I recently re-watched Sidney Lumet's 1975 thriller Three Days of the Condor after many decades. While I never consciously remembered much of the movie, as the scenes unfolded I realized how deeply ingrained they were in my memory, and the extent to which they helped make me a fan of the spy/political thriller genre.
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