3 Full Frame Cameras Street Photographers Will Love

Street photography requires one to be quick, on their feet at all times, and constantly hunting for their next frame. Missing the press of the shutter by a few seconds, and you'll realize that the moment has vanished. If you are someone who is looking for the perfect gear, then…

Shots and Misses

There is a meteor impact crater in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. It’s called Upheaval Dome, because that’s what geologists thought it was before it became clear that it wasn’t. When I visited the place with my teenage kids in the late ’80s, all the placards along t…

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Travel Photographers Will Adore These 4 Cameras

Travel photography is now gaining traction around the world. After the end of the pandemic, many photographers chose to pack their bags and continue their job, with some taking up the job again today. For those who are keen on buying a new camera, here are some models that you m…

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Polytropus

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation, finishing it just a few months ago. When I heard that Christopher Nolan was adapting Homer’s poem, I thought it made perfe…

The White Balance Setting that Makes Portrait and Landscapes Better

For several years, and even now, photographers only tend to go make photographs during the golden hour. But trust me, you don't have to do it. As long as you understand light and white balance, you can actually make any scene in front of you work. Yes, modern cameras are really…

Chíne tréile

When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made. The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher would often put us into groups of ar…

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Filtered for some poetry in modern English

1. My favourite translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia) - 1,000 year old Persian poetry - is by Robert Graves from 1967. Graves, it turns out, unknowingly based his translations on hoax sources. Which might not have gone down so badly, except that he used the h…