Why are self-portraits so powerful? I suspect there are many answers to that question, but here is one answer that...
Jenny Graver
The Phone Photography Project
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The Phone Photography Project
Jenny and I are excited to share with you a new mobile photography class where we will both be teaching...
Medium Format Meditations
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Medium Format Meditations
I am finding that photography not only triggers emotions in me, but that I can use this medium, deliberately, to...
35mm Trials and Triumphs
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35mm Trials and Triumphs
I have a soft spot for 35mm film. It’s where my interest in photography started when I was a teenager,...
Film Friday Feature | Polaroids
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Film Friday Feature | Polaroids
It’s spring, the sun is returning and so is my Polaroid mojo. So naturally, I went browsing our pools for...
The Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner
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The Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner
“Scan all your 35mm film photos easily using your smartphone” This is what Lomography promises that their new smartphone film...
Guest Muse: Janne ‘Anéa’ Arnesen
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Guest Muse: Janne ‘Anéa’ Arnesen
Janne and I met and bonded over a shared love of music when we were teenagers, and we have kept...
Reading a Photograph
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Reading a Photograph
One of the most basic constraints on what makes a good photograph is the way our eye moves through an...
Little things that brighten my day
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Little things that brighten my day
I’m something of a hypocrite when it comes to shopping. I enjoy it as much as the next girl, but...
The Fourth Person
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The Fourth Person
Photography is not about re-creating the world exactly as it is. Rather, it’s about what happens when our vision and...
The Lomography Fisheye
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The Lomography Fisheye
When it comes to film photography, I am something of an omnivore. You name the camera, film, processing or lens,...
Android apps for layering images
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Android apps for layering images
Like Lindsey, I’ve recently been experimenting with layering images on my phone: Since Hipstamatic and the Image Blender App aren’t...
From the accidental to the deliberate
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From the accidental to the deliberate
In his book The Camera, Ansel Adams says of the process he calls visualisation that “[i]t includes the ability to...
Stripping away the old
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Stripping away the old
I love the maximalism of Christmas – that riotous abundance of colours, smells and tastes – but when the calendar...
35mm Christmas
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35mm Christmas
Last weekend I was in Heidelberg in Germany visiting family. I had packed two cameras in addition to my phone,...
Vignette for Android ~ Black and White Edition
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Vignette for Android ~ Black and White Edition
In November the sun rises after I arrive at work and sets before I leave, and even if I have...
Introducing, new muse Justine!
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Introducing, new muse Justine!
I first met Justine a few years ago when we were both taking an online photography class. At first I...
Digital vs. film
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Digital vs. film
Why is it that a lot of modern digital photography is about shooting and editing images with distinct old-school/vintage effects? Perhaps this is something...
November in black and white
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November in black and white
We hope you will join the Muses for a month of black and white in November. If you live in...
Diana+
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Diana+
Lomography, the Austrian company recreating vintage cameras, embraces an attitude to photography that resonates with me – they say it’s...