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HT2788 - Two Kinds of Archives

Here's a Thought… #2788 with Brooks Jensen Two Kinds of Archives Here is a self-observation that I'm wondering if others have, too. When I look through my past productio

HT2787 - The Plot Twist, the Dissonant Chord

Here's a Thought… #2787 with Brooks Jensen The Plot Twist, the Dissonant Chord Literature and music share a common technique that involves the unexpected surprise. In li

LW1528 - Art as Gift

Episode #1528 from our long-running, weekly podcast On Photography and the Creative Process Art as Gift While Brooks is traveling this week, here is an audio recording

HT2786 - Distribution On a Budget

Here's a Thought… #2786 with Brooks Jensen Distribution On a Budget As much as I resist the pragmatics of calculating the cost in production of our art, it is necessary

HT2785 - The Transition to Art Mind

Here's a Thought… #2785 with Brooks Jensen The Transition to Art Mind One of the greatest challenges of my creative life has been the flip of mind that is required to sh

HT2784 - The Virtue of Unknown Roads

Here's a Thought… #2784 with Brooks Jensen The Virtue of Unknown Roads So many photographer I talk to go to known destinations. I don't think it ever occurs to them that

HT2783 - Removing the Unwanted

Here's a Thought… #2783 with Brooks Jensen Removing the Unwanted After all these years in photography, I still believe the best advice I ever received was "remove the un

HT2782 - Of Course Your Family Loves Your Photography

Here's a Thought… #2782 with Brooks Jensen Of Course Your Family Loves Your Photography The first people to see our latest work is probably our spouse, our family, our l

HT2781 - YouTube Shortcuts

Here's a Thought… #2781 with Brooks Jensen YouTube Shortcuts Whatever happened to learning by doing, learning by trial and error, learning by falling flat on our face? P

HT2780 - Go Ahead, Be Insecure

Here's a Thought… #2780 with Brooks Jensen Go Ahead, Be Insecure If you are fully confident and unquestionably sure of your work, you are probable not taking enough chan

LW1527 - My Philosophy of Art in a Nutshell

Episode #1527 from our long-running, weekly podcast On Photography and the Creative Process My Philosophy of Art in a Nutshell Each of us (both as art-maker and as art-

HT2779 - Looking for Solutions, Not Gear

Here's a Thought… #2779 with Brooks Jensen Looking for Solutions, Not Gear The other day I was talking about the use of Polaroids in the field and more recently LCD scre

HT2778 - Photographs Themselves Are Symbols

Here's a Thought… #2778 with Brooks Jensen Photographs Themselves Are Symbols Yesterday I was talking about how we think and feel in symbols. Of course the important top

HT2777 - Everything Is Symbolic

Here's a Thought… #2777 with Brooks Jensen Everything Is Symbolic One of the things that separates humans from animals is that we think in terms of symbols, culturally d

HT2776 - Cluster Mode Photography

Here's a Thought… #2776 with Brooks Jensen Cluster Mode Photography I interviewed David Hurn (MAGNUM) when we published him in LensWork and was fascinated by his descrip

HT2775 - A Timed Event

Here's a Thought… #2775 with Brooks Jensen A Timed Event At the suggestion of a friend years ago, I experimented with photography as a timed event. I was driving through

HT2774 - Plein-air Photoshop

Here's a Thought… #2774 with Brooks Jensen Plein-air Photoshop You're familiar with plein air painting, that open air approach to painting at the scene, in the environme

HT2773 - Twelve For Six

Here's a Thought… #2773 with Brooks Jensen Twelve For Six I continue to have all kinds of fun doing Seeing In SIXES projects. I've been doing them long enough now that I

HT2772 - That Special Travel Feeling

Here's a Thought… #2772 with Brooks Jensen That Special Travel Feeling Why is it that travel seems to precipitate a heighten sense of excitement to photograph that is mi

HT2771 - Your Work and Ansel Adams

Here's a Thought… #2771 with Brooks Jensen Your Work and Ansel Adams I've said for a long time now that the most influential attribute of a work of art is the signature