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Month: December 2017

Composition, Gear, Image, Inspiration, Street Photography

No resolutions, please!

December 28, 2017by Olafphoto2 Comments on No resolutions, please!
No resolutions, please!

This used to be my resolution time. I sat at my desk and evaluated my successes and failures of the passing year. Then, I would jot down my New Year’s resolutions. It was as if those few words embedded on the LCD screen of my iPad would change my photographic life forever. Not anymore! I [...]

Composition, Gear, Image, Travel

Summary of 2017 (Part 2)

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017by Olafphoto9 Comments on Summary of 2017 (Part 2)
Summary of 2017 (Part 2)

Please make sure to read part 1 of our summary. CAMERA OF THE YEAR Every year we try to pick a camera of the year. This is a highly personal and biased choice based purely on our own experience. In the last few years we have always chosen the camera we owned and shot with [...]

Image, Inspiration, Review, Street Photography

Summary of 2017 (Part 1)

December 12, 2017by Olafphoto25 Comments on Summary of 2017 (Part 1)
Summary of 2017 (Part 1)

PIECES OF MY SEEING In 2016, I decided “not to be afraid to be there” and “open my eyes not to what is in front of me but what is inside.” This zest for seeing, the freedom to explore and the hunger for visual risk-taking has brought me to a new place of “unquiet presence.” [...]

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The Magic of Photography

December 8, 2017by Olafphoto14 Comments on The Magic of Photography
The Magic of Photography

I have found photography to be an incredible endeavour. Every day I face a plethora of choices about observing, seeing and crafting a photograph. The more I practice this craft the more I agree with Elliott Erwitt that “it is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.” There is no better season to do [...]

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First Take on the XF 80mm F2.8 OIS lens

December 5, 2017by Olafphoto15 Comments on First Take on the XF 80mm F2.8 OIS lens
First Take on the XF 80mm F2.8 OIS lens

I’m not going to write a full-fledged, all-in review of the brand new 80mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro lens. It’s not that this superb lens doesn’t deserve one. It does! However, Jonas Rask (check out the October issue of the FujiLove Magazine) and others have already done a marvellous job of writing about [...]

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