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Waiting for the Fog to Lift
Read More: Waiting for the Fog to LiftTwo hours in the cold for about four minutes of light. The fog decides when it lifts; you only decide where to stand.
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Ninety Balloons Before Sunrise
Read More: Ninety Balloons Before SunriseThey all launch inside about fifteen minutes. Miss it and you have a valley full of hot air balloons and flat, even light.
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Marble as a Backdrop
Read More: Marble as a BackdropA surface worth photographing on its own terms before it becomes the thing everything else sits on.
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Dark Kitchen, Warm Light
Read More: Dark Kitchen, Warm LightUnderexpose the room, light only the food. The picture should look like a kitchen at the end of the day, not a studio.
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A Spice Drawer, Flattened
Read More: A Spice Drawer, FlattenedFlat lays live or die on the gaps. Fill every space and it reads as clutter; leave too much and it reads as unfinished.
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Two Cups, One Window
Read More: Two Cups, One WindowOne north-facing window, a sheet of white card, and about an hour before the light moves off the table entirely.
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One Tent, No Moon
Read More: One Tent, No MoonA lit tent is the oldest trick in night photography and it still works, because it gives the eye somewhere warm to land.
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Twenty Minutes of Rotation
Read More: Twenty Minutes of RotationStar trails are just arithmetic: find the pole, point at it, and let the planet do the composition.
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Green Light Over the Ice
Read More: Green Light Over the IceThe aurora moves faster than the internet suggests. Anything over four seconds and the structure smears into a wash.
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Notes on Vertigo
Read More: Notes on VertigoThe picture is only interesting because your own feet are in it. Remove them and it is an aerial shot like any other.
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Hard Lines, Soft Sky
Read More: Hard Lines, Soft SkyA building this severe needs weather behind it. On a blue day it reads as a diagram; under moving cloud it reads as a shape.
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The Bridge Disappears
Read More: The Bridge DisappearsFog does the editing for you. Everything behind the second tower is simply gone, and the structure becomes a line drawing.