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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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HT2586 - The Data Hidden in the Noise

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/04/08

HT2586 - The Data Hidden in the NoiseWe click the shutter because there's something there. We feel it, we sense it, we may not be able to describe it, but there is data hidden in the noise. Our job is artists is to brush away the noise, the obscuring dust, sometimes the verbosity in our mind. Photography is not so much about taking as it is about revealing. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2585 - New Is Not Necessarily a Virtue

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2026/04/07

HT2585 - New Is Not Necessarily a VirtuePhotographers tend to get very excited about everything new. New gear, new techniques, new locations, new venues. The problem with new is that it can be a false promise. It's far too easy to equate new with better. My experience is that better pictures most often come from repeated visits and pushing past the new, past our first impressions. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a donation Thanks!

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HT2584 - Everyday Life Interrupted

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2026/04/06

HT2584 - Everyday Life Interrupted It's interesting to look back at the artists' statement included with many portfolios in LensWork. It's amazing how many times the photographer begins by saying they were doing something completely disconnected from photography when all of a sudden they saw something that created a sympathetic vibration with their creative soul. They grabbed their camera and interrupted daily life to make art. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily

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LW1500 - My Heartfelt Thanks, Again

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2026/04/06

LW1500 - My Heartfelt Thanks, Again On this day as we post a milestone with LensWork Podcast #1500, let me quote one of my favorite novelists, W. Sommerset Maugham. "I think few serious writers can be entirely indifferent to the fate that will befall their works after their death. It is pleasant to think, not that one may achieve immortality but that one may be read with interest by a few generations and find a place, however small, in the history of one's country's literature." All I can add to

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HT2583 - During One Sitting

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2026/04/05

HT2583 - During One SittingIf I really want to spend some time with an image to understand it, think about it, consider its implications and deeper message, I know going in that there is a limit to how many images I can connect with in a given sitting. Of course I can only speak with authority about my own experience. I know, from my Sunday morning book time, that I reach a limit at about a hundred images. More than that and my brain just locks up. Sometimes far fewer. I can scan quickly through

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HT2582 - Compositional Geometry

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2026/04/04

HT2582 - Compositional Geometry Consider one, two, or three. In geometry, one is a point, two is a line, three is a triangle. In photographic composition, one is a thing, two is relationship, and three is a movement. Which of these do you think makes a more interesting and dynamic viewing experience? Staring at a dot? Bouncing back and forth along the line? Or traveling in an almost circular movement? This RSS feed includes only the most recentseven Here's a Thought episodes. All of them — over

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HT2580 - Sometimes a Picture Is Just a Picture,...

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2026/04/02

HT2580 - Sometimes a Picture Is Just a Picture, Sometimes NotIn these Here's a Thought comments, I talk a lot about meaning and content and the philosophy behind photography. There is, however, a case to be made for just letting a picture be a picture. It's a matter of trying to find balance in the swinging pendulum between profundity and simple beauty. So much of photography is about capturing beauty and why not? If that's the only content of the photograph, image after image after image, one

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HT2579 - Either Match Perfectly or Not At All

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2026/04/01

HT2579 - Either Match Perfectly or Not At AllIt has been pointed out to me over the years and by several people that I have zero fashion sense, particularly in my choice of clothing. Maureen compassionately laughed at me when I dressed up one time in khaki pants and a tan shirt that didn't match and then another time when they did and I looked like the ice cream man. Such lessons taught me a lot about depth of field in my photography. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our

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HT2578 - Ruthless Editing, Again

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2026/03/31

HT2578 - Ruthless Editing, AgainLast weekend, more or less just for fun, I reviewed all 180 projects in my Kokoro series of PDFs. One of the conclusions from this review is that I need to do more ruthless editing. Far too often I felt that a project simply had too many images. My primary criteria for editing has always been to eliminate repetition, but I need to expand that and maybe set more rigid limits on how many images are included in a project. Breaking a project into smaller parts might be

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LW1499 - The Most Important Lesson

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2026/03/30

LW1499 - The Most Important Lesson I was recently asked, by two different people, about my 50+ years in photography. A non-photographer asked me what I had learned from my lifelong engagement with photography. Coincidentally a few days later, a photographer asked me essentially the same question. I was surprised that I had different answers depending on who asked question. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are only

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HT2577 - Little Things Gone Wrong

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2026/03/30

HT2577 - Little Things Gone Wrong We try, of course, to do our very best with every image, with every project. We strive for perfection. Do we ever achieve it? Far more often than I care to admit, while looking back at some of my completed work I find little things that I could have so easily corrected, but missed. A misspelled word, unfortunate punctuation, the small distraction poking in from the edge of an image, an inconsistency in layout, an image I now realize needed a little tweak here or

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HT2576 - Illumination

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2026/03/29

HT2576 - IlluminationI love word play almost as much as I love photography. Has it ever occurred to you the double meaning inherent in the word illumination? We search for illuminating light to reveal the shadows. We also search for illumination in the sense of enlightenment and understanding. Photography is all about illumination, interestingly enough in both definitions of the term. Perhaps better than the term photographer we could think of ourselves as "illumination seekers" — in both senses

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HT2575 - The Aspect Ratio for Publication

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2026/03/28

HT2575 - The Aspect Ratio for Publication The earliest issues of Kokoro were produced in a portrait orientation. My thinking was that the portrait orientation format would fit better when viewing on a phone or a tablet. I discovered, however, that a portrait orientation did not fit computer monitors, or laptops well at all. I knew that by changing to a landscape orientation would complicate people viewing on their the phone, but phones and tablets can easily be rotated whereas computer monitors and

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HT2574 - The Difficulty with Warm-toning

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2026/03/27

HT2574 - The Difficulty with Warm-toningI learned about warm-toning in the mid-1980s. At that time, everybody created selenium-toned images that had a slight purple cast. Contrary to the popular zeitgeist of the times, I discovered Kodak Brown Toner and Kodak Polytoner and fell in love with warm-toned images. In the digital workflow, warm toning is very tricky because brown is such an odd color. Show your appreciation for our free weekly Podcast and our free daily Here's a Thought… with a

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HT2581 - Visual Tinnitus

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2026/03/27

HT2581 - Visual TinnitusThis morning I went to one of my favorite breakfast diners. While I was waiting for my food, I pulled out my phone to review a new PDF publication of photography. I simply could not do it due to the volume and bombardment of distracting noise. A loud radio, the conversation and laughter of the patrons, dishes clanking, cash register ringing, phones ringing, door chimes — I was drowning in an overload of the audible cacophony. Perhaps this is one of the reasons I dislike art

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HT2573 - The Starting Point

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2026/03/26

HT2573 - The Starting Point My approach to processing is that with every image, the end point of processing is unknown. Aesthetics can evolve, ideas can blossom, expectations can change. Perhaps counterintuitively, I find that beginning the process at the same starting point is a surprisingly useful strategy. With every image I start with input sharpening, some tone mapping to make the image look normal, and even some cropping to straighten horizon lines or verticals. Essentially, I start with a

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HT2572 - At Some Point the Goalposts Moved

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2026/03/25

HT2572 - At Some Point the Goalposts MovedFor several decades after the invention of photography, the goal for all photographers was to make an optically accurate image. That meant with technical perfection, emulating human vision. Somewhere I can't identify in the history of photography, that objective was expanded and a few photographers began thinking about the medium as something else, something more pliable, something more personally expressive. I think this evolution also occurs in each of

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HT2571 - Experiment with Abandon

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2026/03/24

HT2571 - Experiment with AbandonMy favorite capability in the digital workflow is undoubtedly Control-Z. The ability to experiment with abandon and then undo what doesn't work makes processing not only more efficient but it encourages experimentation. If, as I've proposed elsewhere, photography is a matter of choosing among variants, then the creative impulse is all about experimentation, trial and error, give it a go and see what happens. I try, at least as often as I can, to make three stylistic

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LW1498 - Announcing a New Photograph

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2026/03/23

LW1498 - Announcing a New Photograph I remember with aging nostalgia when we would feel so proud about a new image we'd created. "Wowee," we'd proclaim, "Look at what I've done!" We were told that 10 new prints a year was a good crop. Now, here in 2026, I'll receive an email announcement about once a week with this same excitement. "Announcing my new print." I wish I could be excited about such pronouncements, but they leave me feeling underwhelmed. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are

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HT2570 - Macro Viewing, or Tiny Screen Syndrome

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process ·

2026/03/23

HT2570 - Macro Viewing, or Tiny Screen Syndrome Can you imagine what a thrill it was in the first half of the 20th century when the means of making a photograph evolved from the contact print to the enlargement? Bigger prints were breathtaking and that trend continues even to today. There is today, however, a reality about viewing fine art photography that should make us photographers a little uncomfortable. Most of our images will now be seen on a tiny screen that is smaller than a 4x5 contact

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