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A reflected city gives you two scenes to compose at once. A shop window can hold the pavement behind you and the interior beyond the glass; a puddle can put a tower beneath your feet; a polished metal panel can turn an ordinary facade into a broken pattern. …
A photography location map becomes useful when it remembers the things you would otherwise forget. The pin tells you where a place is. A …
Every high viewpoint makes the same promise and breaks it the same way. You climb, you turn around, and there it is: the whole city, the …
The photographer in this frame is doing something that looks excessive and isn’t. Wide zoom at the eye, telephoto hanging off the other …
Grey sky, mid-morning, mid-October. This is the light most people complain about and then shoot in anyway, because you don’t get to …
The Louvre has been photographed more than almost any building on earth. Your version adds nothing. The pyramid is lit the same way every …
Everybody photographs this square. There is probably no square in Europe with a worse ratio of photos taken to photos worth keeping. I stood …
The most interesting thing about the Sony RX10 V isn’t a spec bump — it’s that the fixed-lens, do-everything premise of this camera still …
The one-lens travel constraint is a discipline, not a deprivation. It forces compositional decisions that a bag of primes defers …
The wide-walk shot — camera held at chest height, walking through a location, the environment flowing past at the edges of the frame — is …
