Don't Panic

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Clementi Central by alkanphel

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Clementi by alkanphel

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Jalan Kota I, Melaka, Malaysia by alkanphel

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Taman Merdeka, Melaka, Malaysia by alkanphel

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JWCC by alkanphel

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A Photobook Manifesto I: Narrative - Disphotic

Drafts of Metropole, earliest at top left, final book at bottom right. – One of my motivations for setting up this blog was to get away from what seemed to be the preponderance of practical blogs and websites out there, focused far more on mandating the specific ‘dos and do nots’ of photography than about …

“So, when it comes to thinking about a new book project the question I increasingly ask myself is should this project even be a book?”

A good read on whether you should turn your series into a book.

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Galleria Borghese by alkanphel

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Mile High by alkanphel

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Never give up? See if this sounds familiar: a friend's youngest son wants to be a musician. Actually what he wants to be is a rock star. He devoted himself to music at age 16 and determined above all to...

A good read about how you should explore to find your interests in photography but don’t wander too long. And then focus!

A related read is the Helsinki Bus Station Theory.

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Dakota by alkanphel

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Dividing notable landscape photographers into quadrants.

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Eunos by alkanphel

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Bukit Merah by alkanphel

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All my life I've met, listened to, read interviews with, and talked to real photographers. And when in comes to mastering photographic technique, the lesson they collectively impart is this: you only need to know what you need to know.

The Online Photographer

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Nanyang Ave by alkanphel

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I think it’s wonderful that everybody can take photographs, just like I think it’s wonderful everybody can write. But there are very few writers and there are very few photographers. Everybody has a camera, everybody can press the button. Everybody has a pencil, everybody can make a signature. But that doesn’t mean there are many great writers and it doesn’t mean there are many great photographers.

Josef Koudelka, from The Online Photographer.

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Bolzano by alkanphel