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Making an accomplished photograph is no longer the great challenge for our generation of photographers. Instead, our great challenge is using photography to say something meaningful.

Brooks Jensen on The Lenswork Podcast (via alesserphotographer)

bobbycaputo

allaboutphotography

I am always amazed at how strong of opinions people have in regards to photography…

Photographers will choose to dislike an image because it has a vintage fade or filmic effect that makes it look like “Instagram garbage.” Photographers will dislike an image because it uses non-natural light. Photographers will dislike an image because it has been manipulated or composited in Photoshop. Some photographers will dislike images due to a lack of technical perfection. Extreme “purists” will even choose to dislike an image because it has been edited outside of the camera.

In this article, I am going to address each of these arguments and tell you why in general this contagious and pervasive “elitist” mentality is not only ridiculously unjustified, it is also completely detrimental to one’s own growth as a photographer.

photojojo

allaboutphotography

**Documentaries** * [1948, The Photographer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291421/combined) (via [TramStopDan](http://www.reddit.com/user/TramStopDan)…

firsttimeuser

claytoncubitt

Having a camera makes you a photographer in the same way that having a microwave makes you a chef.

Twitter / claytoncubitt (via claytoncubitt)

photojojo

7 Photo Projects to Start on January 1st!

Project 365 - One great photo a day

Project Life - A scrapbook w/ 1 page per week

Project 52 - One great photo per week

Pick an Object - Shoot the same thing over time

*Long* Exposures - Like 6 months long!

Each Hour - A photo for each hour of the day

Use Apps - Like the Photojojo Time Capsule, Collect or Everyday

See the full guide!

Photo by Melina Souza

photographsonthebrain

I didn’t steal these images. My only mistake was not giving the original artists credit. I’ve now spoken to them and apologized to them. We came to the agreement that I have to take everything down and destroy it, which is exactly what I’m going to do […] Now everything is all f**ked up. I don’t have a gallery. I don’t have a job. I don’t have any way to make money … Now nobody wants to buy my work, even though most of it isn’t a copy of anything. I’m not a millionaire! I live in a tiny little room and people think that I’m some famous millionaire. It’s not the case.

- Josafat Miranda

via Photogs Find Paintings That Look Just Like Their Photos Hanging in a Gallery

(via photographsonthebrain)

photographsonthebrain

No amount of technology will turn a mediocre photographer into a great one. Nor, in conceptual terms, will it transform a bad idea into a good one. For that you would still need to possess a rare set of creative gifts that are still to do with seeing, with deep looking.

Sean O’Hagan, Photography: an art form that never stands still (via photographsonthebrain)

artchipel

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Ansel Adams (1902–1984, USA)

#Ansel Adams