LW1529 - Pretty Picture Overload
Maybe I'm just feeling ornery these days. I find I'm becoming less and less impressed with pretty pictures. Sometimes it feels like we are b...
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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These short 2-4 minute talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-step...
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20 of 189 episodesHT2793 - When the Project Picks You
Here's a Thought… #2793 with Brooks Jensen When the Project Picks You I'll readily confess that most of my best projects are not preplanned,...
HT2792 - We Engineer-Artists
Here's a Thought… #2792 with Brooks Jensen We Engineer-Artists One of the things that fascinates me about photography is that it lies at the...
HT2791 - Prevent a Disaster
Here's a Thought… #2791 with Brooks Jensen Prevent a Disaster Photographers spend a lot of time thinking about how to be successful with the...
HT2790 - Lessons That Last a Lifetime
Here's a Thought… #2790 with Brooks Jensen Lessons That Last a Lifetime Years ago I used to subscribe to Popular Photography , Modern Photog...
HT2789 - One Place Well
Here's a Thought… #2789 with Brooks Jensen One Place Well Travel photography is surely an interesting way to take our camera out into the wo...
HT2788 - Two Kinds of Archives
Here's a Thought… #2788 with Brooks Jensen Two Kinds of Archives Here is a self-observation that I'm wondering if others have, too. When I l...
HT2787 - The Plot Twist, the Dissonant Chord
Here's a Thought… #2787 with Brooks Jensen The Plot Twist, the Dissonant Chord Literature and music share a common technique that involves t...
LW1528 - Art as Gift
While Brooks is traveling this week, here is an audio recording of him reading the Editor's Comments from LensWork #44, originally published...
HT2786 - Distribution On a Budget
Here's a Thought… #2786 with Brooks Jensen Distribution On a Budget As much as I resist the pragmatics of calculating the cost in production...
HT2785 - The Transition to Art Mind
Here's a Thought… #2785 with Brooks Jensen The Transition to Art Mind One of the greatest challenges of my creative life has been the flip o...
HT2784 - The Virtue of Unknown Roads
Here's a Thought… #2784 with Brooks Jensen The Virtue of Unknown Roads So many photographer I talk to go to known destinations. I don't thin...
HT2783 - Removing the Unwanted
Here's a Thought… #2783 with Brooks Jensen Removing the Unwanted After all these years in photography, I still believe the best advice I eve...
HT2782 - Of Course Your Family Loves Your Photography
Here's a Thought… #2782 with Brooks Jensen Of Course Your Family Loves Your Photography The first people to see our latest work is probably...
HT2781 - YouTube Shortcuts
Here's a Thought… #2781 with Brooks Jensen YouTube Shortcuts Whatever happened to learning by doing, learning by trial and error, learning b...
HT2780 - Go Ahead, Be Insecure
Here's a Thought… #2780 with Brooks Jensen Go Ahead, Be Insecure If you are fully confident and unquestionably sure of your work, you are pr...
LW1527 - My Philosophy of Art in a Nutshell
Each of us (both as art-maker and as art-lover) makes decisions about our relationship with art -- ours and other's. What is the purpose of...
HT2779 - Looking for Solutions, Not Gear
Here's a Thought… #2779 with Brooks Jensen Looking for Solutions, Not Gear The other day I was talking about the use of Polaroids in the fie...
HT2778 - Photographs Themselves Are Symbols
Here's a Thought… #2778 with Brooks Jensen Photographs Themselves Are Symbols Yesterday I was talking about how we think and feel in symbols...
HT2777 - Everything Is Symbolic
Here's a Thought… #2777 with Brooks Jensen Everything Is Symbolic One of the things that separates humans from animals is that we think in t...