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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork

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HT2514 - They Are Not All Winners

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2026/01/26

HT2514 - They Are Not All Winners Some of what we produce doesn't wear well over time. Nothing we produce connects with everyone who sees it. This is precisely why there is virtue in producing a lot of work in the nature of an anthology. It not only keeps your creative juices flowing, but also provides your audience a better chance of finding something with which they can connect deeply. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation

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HT2513 - Post-publication Revisions

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2026/01/25

HT2513 - Post-publication Revisions There's a fascinating story about revisions in the great Humphrey Bogart film noir movie The Big Sleep. This has me thinking about post-production revisions. One of the great advantages of digital publication is the ability to revise the content so easily and even instantaneously. Maybe it's a good idea for us to use version numbering like they do in software. This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2400

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HT2512 - Vacuum Dust

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/01/24

HT2512 - Vacuum Dust A while back I shared some ideas about dealing with the dust that makes those big out of focus blobs in the sky in our images. Here's a companion idea thanks to podcast listener Rob Motta of Boulder, Colorado. This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2500 and counting! — are available to members of LensWork Online. Try a 30-day membership for only $10 and discover the literally terabytes of content about photography and the

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HT2511 - Our Inescapable Reliance on Stuff

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2026/01/23

HT2511 - Our Inescapable Reliance on Stuff Just as a thought experiment, what would you do if you could no longer purchase ink for your printer? What if the three big printer manufacturers (Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Cannon)suddenly decided to stop manufacturing printers. What if you could no longer purchase film, batteries, or lenses for your camera? We are so dependent on materials whose manufacturer is beyond our control. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily

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HT2510 - The Extremes

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2026/01/22

HT2510 - The ExtremesLike many other human activities, photography can easily evolve into an extreme sport. Will your photographs be visibly better with that 100 megapixel camera? Or that 10 gigapixel stitch? Do you really need 60 frames per second in order to capture just that perfect instance? Can you not succeed in wildlife photography unless your lenses is long as the elephant's trunk you are photographing? What is there about extremes that become so seductive in so many walks of life? Show

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HT2509 - Where DOF Fails

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2026/01/21

HT2509 - Where DOF FailsA while back I did a research project looking at almost 10,000 raw captures in my Lightroom catalog. I wanted to determine what caused a failed image to fail, technologically. I did not consider aesthetics but rather the mechanics of photography. My hope was that I could eliminate or at least reduce those technical failures. Two primary failures dominated all others. The number one failure was camera movement, easily resolved with faster shutter speeds or tripods. The

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HT2508 - Mastering the Craft vs Photography

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2026/01/20

HT2508 - Mastering the Craft vs PhotographyLet's talk about feelings. As I think back to all the workshops and classes that I've taken in my 50 years of photography, I can't remember a single one that centered on what I felt or wanted to express. Instead, all I can remember are endless discussions and demonstrations about the craft of photography. There is only one exception that comes to mind and that moment was a question from Bruce Barnbaum I'll never forget. What do you want to experience, and

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HT2507 - You Must Create Your Magnum Opus TODAY

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2026/01/19

HT2507 - You Must Create Your Magnum Opus TODAY Wouldn't it be lovely if we had a switch we could throw that would turn on our creative genius at a moment's notice? Flick goes the switch and your best ever photograph is produced because you commanded it into existence. Unfortunately, life doesn't work that way. Our magnum opus happens in the midst of lots of other work that, well, isn't your magnum opus. Our magnum opus is the result of plowing ahead and simply doing our best with every

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LW1489 - Your Own Voice

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/01/19

LW1489 - Your Own Voice In so many ways, we have entered a new era in photography. It's getting harder and harder to be visually unique. Google is photographing everything. Now more than ever we need to find a way to use our own voice in our artwork. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access, terabytes of content, inspiration and ideas that expand daily with new content. Sign up for instant

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HT2506 - Allocating Our Precious Time

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2026/01/18

HT2506 - Allocating Our Precious TimeThe most valuable commodity we have in our art life is not our gear, not our training, not our creative impulses, not our energy and drive. All those things might be important, but they are useless unless we have time. Without time all the potential we've banked by learning our craft and going out photographing will add up to naught. I know it can seem counterintuitive to schedule our creative activities, but in fact having a schedule to work on our art maybe

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HT2505 - Buried in Lightroom

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2026/01/17

HT2505 - Buried in Lightroom One of the most dramatic impacts of digital photography is the volume of captures that now reside on all of our hard drives. It's not uncommon at all for me to hear that a photographer has tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of images in their catalog that are, essentially, inaccessible to anyone except the photographer. So much creativity buried in our hard drives just waiting for their turn on stage! This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a

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HT2504 - Searching for Threads

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/01/16

HT2504 - Searching for Threads You've set aside an hour to work on your photography and find yourself sitting at the computer looking at images. At such moments, it is so tempting to spend your precious creative time on a search for images that have potential and then processing them to the best of your abilities. That's not the only option. Alternatively, you might try using that precious time on a different search, a search for the threads that can bind a group of images into a project. Show

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HT2503 - Managing Results vs Managing Work

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2026/01/15

HT2503 - Managing Results vs Managing WorkLast year I became frustrated that I wasn't getting done as many photographic projects as I had hoped to finish. My old goal-directed business training kicked in and I decided to set goals for myself. It didn't help. And then I remembered one of the earliest lessons from management training: Don't manage results, manage the work. Set another way, goals are a result, not a tactic. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's

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HT2502 - Believability vs Truthfulness

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2026/01/14

HT2502 - Believability vs TruthfulnessThe other day I was looking at some of the photo essays done by W. Eugene Smith and published in Life magazine. They're fantastic examples of the integration of image and text, and as such are worth taking the time to study in some detail. In the process of looking at this work. It occurred to me that my underlying assumption in all his photo essays is that they are truthful, that is to say, documentary not fiction. But would it make a difference to my

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HT2501 - Playing Guitar or Making Music

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2026/01/13

HT2501 - Playing Guitar or Making MusicI recently heard a reviewer say of a musician that he didn't play the guitar, he made music. Boy, does that sum up so much about any medium that is the fusion of tools and creative vision — like photography. Do we take pictures or do we make images? Do we make images or do we observe and comment on life? Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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LW1488 - Heres a Thought Number 2,500

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/01/12

LW1488 - Here's a Thought Number 2,500 I hope you won't mind if I take just a few moments to say thank you and to celebrate this, our 2,500th Here's a Thought commentary, over 6 years of daily thoughts about photography and the art life. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only $10. Instant access, terabytes of content, inspiration and ideas that expand daily with new content. Sign up for instant access! You might

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HT2500 - Here's a Thought Number 2,500

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2026/01/12

HT2500 - Here's a Thought Number 2,500 I hope you won't mind if I take just a few moments to say thank you and to celebrate this, our 2,500th Here's a Thought commentary, over 6 years of daily thoughts about photography and the art life. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2499 - Photographers and Commerce

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2026/01/11

HT2499 - Photographers and Commerce What percentage of people who bowl aspire to become professional bowlers? What percentage of people who enjoy cooking dinner dream of open a restaurant? Golfers, swimmers, runners, painters, poets, car drivers, pet owners, people who play a musical instrument? Why is it that so many photographers want to sell their work or at least have their work exhibited in a commercial gallery? This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a Thought episodes. All

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HT2498 - The Natural Look

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2026/01/10

HT2498 - The Natural LookLike I often do with my morning coffee, this morning I watched a few YouTube videos on processing in Lightroom. I've learned a lot from these people, but not always the ideas they think they are teaching. By coincidence, all five videos I watched today were about making images look natural. Why is this the objective? I know I keep circling back to this point, but is photography a substitute for human vision or is it a medium for artistic expression? This RSS feed includes

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HT2497 - The Unhealthy Pursuit of Perfection

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2026/01/09

HT2497 - The Unhealthy Pursuit of PerfectionWe've been watching a television series in which one of the main characters is constantly getting herself in trouble by pursuing perfection. She then finds herself in difficulty because the perfect is never attainable. She pushes people to unreasonable extremes, is constantly dissatisfied no matter how successful her actions are, repeatedly makes irrational decisions that cause her best intentions to collapse. Where is the line between pursuing

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