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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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HT2568 - A Portable Gallery

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/03/21

HT2568 - A Portable Gallery Here's a story about my friend, the late Kevin Raber. Whenever we would find ourselves discussing an image or a photographer, he would immediately pull out his tablet and bring up the image we were discussing. His tablet was, I think, primarily his portable gallery. He carried with him the entire set of LensWork, a good percentage of his own photography, lots of images from photographers he admired, and an assortment of images that were important to him. My portable

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HT2567 - Moment Is Not Quite the Right Word

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2026/03/20

HT2567 - Moment Is Not Quite the Right WordOne of the things I particularly like about the Seeing In SIXES concept for photography is its ability to expand or stretch time. Instead of the instantaneous photograph, with six images we have the capability to express a moment. I've never been comfortable with that term. Describing the unit of time for a Seeing in SIXES project is difficult. A moment is too short; an hour is too long. I think this is so because it's not a measure of clock time but

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HT2566 - Appreciating Technical Accomplishment

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2026/03/19

HT2566 - Appreciating Technical AccomplishmentI had an odd revelation at a concert last night. Afterwards, at dinner, the general consensus was that the pianist was incredibly talented and accomplished. Although I enjoyed the music immensely, I realized I had no ability to appreciate her skill. I don't play the piano i.e., I have no context for the difficulties of the performance. I have no way to judge her talent other than I like it or I don't. I wonder if this is the same with the public as

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HT2565 - The Updating Dilemma

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2026/03/18

HT2565 - The Updating DilemmaMajor software updates have become a part of our photographic life. Some of these updates in software features are subtle, but occasionally an update introduces a major game-changing capability. What are we to do if a new update in software processing allows us to make a significant improvement in one of our images from yesteryear? Do we go back and "fix" the images processed with older software? If so, where do we draw the line? Show your appreciation for our free

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HT2564 - I Saw This Very Cool Thing

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2026/03/17

HT2564 - I Saw This Very Cool ThingHere's another thought experiment about producing artwork. I looked back at all I've done and divided my productivity into two piles. The first pile was photographs that essentially say, "I saw this very cool thing." And the second pile was the artwork where the essence of the work was to say, "This is what I have to say about this thing." I found I had way more work in the first pile, but that the most meaningful work I'd done was in the second. I wouldn't be

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HT2563 - Advice on Travel Photography

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2026/03/16

HT2563 - Advice on Travel Photography Here is some advice about travel that doesn't come from me, although I do agree with it. Strangely enough, it's a passage from the book Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1929. Not aimed specifically at photographers or artists, it still is an observation about travel that I think fits perfectly with our creative process as photographers. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2562 - More on Framing

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2026/03/15

HT2562 - More on FramingAt the risk of beating a dead horse, here are a few more thought about photography in frames, an extension of yesterday's comments about whether or not mats and frames are part of the artwork. 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 creative

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HT2561 - Is the Frame Part of the Artwork?

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2026/03/14

HT2561 - Is the Frame Part of the Artwork? We don't just thumbtack our prints to the wall. Instead, we dress them up a little bit. We mat them and frame them and then hang them on the wall. Where does the artwork stop and the presentation embellishments begin? Said another way, are the mat and the frame part of the artwork? 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

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HT2560 - Describe What You See

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2026/03/13

HT2560 - Describe What You SeeBefore you click the shutter, tell me what you see. I would be willing to bet big money that your description would mostly include details of the things you mentally isolate from the larger context. In essence, your description would be a list of objects you deem important enough to notice. Reread that last sentence and replace the word "description" with "photograph." To make a better photograph do we need a better description? Or, is what's missing emotional content

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HT2559 - A Catalog of Your Work

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2026/03/12

HT2559 - A Catalog of Your WorkA friend of mine (who is a little older than I am) is involved in a massive project to create a digital catalog of his life's work. This consists of over 2500 finished images. He has inspired me to think about doing a similar project and catalog for my own work. But then, I had to ask myself, who would ever see it? Why would such a catalog be important to anyone other than me? Which is more important, doing new work or recording that past work has been done? Perhaps

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HT2558 - Losing History

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2026/03/11

HT2558 - Losing History When I started in photography some 50 years ago it was axiomatic and universally understood that it was important to learn the history of photography. There were, I'm guessing, a couple of hundred photographers who are still important to this day, who were the pioneers, whose work we needed to know at least briefly if not intensely. We built a library of their books, study their images, read their essays, and recognized intuitively that this was a prerequisite for our own

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HT2557 - Key Tones

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2026/03/10

HT2557 - Key Tones There's a theory in fine art photography that every image needs to have key tones, some spot in the photograph that is absolute black and another that is absolute white. These tones supposedly calibrate our vision for everything else in the image. They become tonal reference points. Like all other rules in photography, I find this one contains a truth, but not a rigid one. Key tones are worth considering, but not with inflexible rigidity. Show your appreciation for our free

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LW1496 - When do you own a photograph?

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/03/09

LW1496 - When do you own a photograph? Do you own a piece of music because you purchased the CD, or do you own it when you have memorized the tune? Do you own a novel because you purchased the book or because you read it? Do you own a photograph when you've purchased the original print? Or do you own a photograph when it becomes so familiar that it's part of your mental gallery? Thought about another way, do you own a photograph because of the physicality of the print, or is it more important that

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LW1497 - Dates, Time, and Eras

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2026/03/09

LW1497 - Dates, Time, and Eras When was Edward Weston's famous Pepper #30 photographed? How about Ansel Adams classic Moonrise Over Hernandez? Or Dorothea Lange's now icon image, Migrant Mother? What year were they photographed? If you can't recall the year these famous image where made, can you at least place them in chronological order? If not, why not? Simple — the year nor the order are important, at least not to our emotional response to the content. All previous episodes of our weekly

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HT2556 - Knowing When to Move

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2026/03/09

HT2556 - Knowing When to Move I think it was Picasso who said, "The trick in painting is knowing when to stop." I've adapted Picasso's thought for photograph. When out photographing, try to remind myself that the trick is knowing when to move on. I'm always tempted to move on immediately after I've pressed the shutter. I have it, so be done. If I can remember to resist this temptation, it's amazing how many times I find a better picture by being still, waiting a few moments, paying attention to the

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HT2555 - My Advice Cannot Make Your Pictures

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/03/08

HT2555 - My Advice Cannot Make Your Pictures I spend way too much time on YouTube because it's such a great way to learn tidbits about the technology of photography. That said, there are also gazillions of videos that will try to tell you the steps you must (or must not take) to make an aesthetically pleasing photograph, in essence how to follow the rules without admitting that you are following the rules. The challenge is to learn from the technical while simultaneously using aesthetic advice with

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HT2554 - Scant Feedback, If Any

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2026/03/07

HT2554 - Scant Feedback, If Any Applause is lovely. Accolades are lovely. Sales are lovely. Relying on such feedback to fuel your motivations is to place yourself in a position that doesn't help your creativity. Statistically, it just doesn't add up. Produce your work because you need to do it and because the Universe needs you to do it, not for the applause and (God forbid) not for the sales. This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over 2500 and

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HT2553 - Minutia

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/03/06

HT2553 - MinutiaIt can be quite entertaining to hear photographers talk about their images. Almost without exception, the photographer will examine tiny areas of the image including details, juxtapositions of composition, perfect tonal relationships, extremely subtle things that non-photographers would never see, or I should say never notice. For some reason, photographers think these minutia can make or break the success of a photograph. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our

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HT2552 - Big Things and Little Things

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2026/03/05

HT2552 - Big Things and Little ThingsSome friends of ours are visiting Kyoto this week, many of the same places I visited in 2019 in my last visit to Japan. They are sending lots of pictures and I can't help but observing a difference between what they're photographing and what I photographed. Same locations, different visions. I suppose this shouldn't be a surprise, but it does have me thinking. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a

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HT2551 - Four Hundred Donuts

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2026/03/04

HT2551 - Four Hundred DonutsWe all like a donut now and then. Two donuts on occasion. Three donuts? Might be entering the realm of excess. A dozen? Impossible without getting sick of donuts. Enough is enough and more than that leaves us overwhelmed, repulsed, ill. This comes to mind because I recently received a 400-page monograph of photographs. Roughly 40 pages in and I started feeling numb. At page 100, I gave up, realizing I hadn't really seen the last 60 images at all — and there were 300

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