A good photograph is often one small correction away from becoming quiet and strong. (my favourite quote this week) Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about build your personal Hermes Research Agent ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive photo culling workflow Lens flare is not always a problem. Sometimes it gives a photo mood. Sometimes it makes light feel alive. Sometimes that small glow around the sun makes the whole frame feel warmer. But most of the time? Lens flare is just a...
about 6 hours ago • 6 min read
Travel gives you the scene. Patience gives you the photograph.(my favourite quote this week) Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about announcements from Google I/O that you should care. ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive How to Get Sharper Photos. There's a habit most creative people don't even notice they have. After a shoot or after producing any large body of work they open everything up and start looking for what's wrong. Which photos are blurry? Which ones should go? Which...
7 days ago • 5 min read
Travel teaches you to move fast, but photography rewards you for slowing down. (my favourite quote this week) Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about /goal in AI Agent. ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive impact of overtourism. Most photographers blame the lens first. The photo looks soft, so the mind goes straight to gear. Maybe the lens is not sharp enough. Maybe I need a better prime. Maybe this camera is not good in low light. I have thought like this too. But after shooting...
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A place isn’t beautiful because you visited. It’s beautiful because someone stayed. (my favourite quote this week) Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about Hermes AI Agent Use cases? ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive why photographer should try abstract photography? There’s a village in northern Norway with fewer than 25 permanent residents. Last year, 90,000 tourists visited. Ninety thousand. Read that ratio again. Over 4,000 visitors for every single person who actually lives...
21 days ago • 6 min read
A frame becomes personal when you stop copying the view and start seeing your version of it. (my favourite quote this week) Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about release of ChatGPT 5.5 & Images 2.0? ⁍Read our LensLetter Archive one lens walk around kit. The Genre That Makes Every Other Genre Better Something to try when the light is flat, the subject is uninspiring, and you're not sure what else to do with the time. That's a mistake and I want to change your mind about it...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
The best travel photos usually happen between the plans, not inside them. (my favourite quote this week) Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about AI Agent Dreaming, Memory & Self Learning? ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive Photo Editing in Davinci? The Camera You'll Actually Carry There's a moment most photographers know well. You're heading out a weekend away, a walk through somewhere interesting, a casual afternoon with no particular plan and you stand in front of your gear and...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
The photograph is proof you were there. The edit is proof of how you felt about it.(my favourite quote this week) Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about how you can build your personal AI agent? ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive about how computation photography evolved? There is a very specific kind of frustration that builds slowly, quietly, over years of paying a monthly subscription for software you already know how to use. You are not buying anything new. You are renting...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
The photograph is proof you were there. The edit is proof of how you felt about it.(my favourite quote this week) Hello Hello 👋 Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about overview on OpenClaw vs Hermes vs Paperclip AI Agents. ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive about create before consume or curate. Photography has had its identity challenged before. Every single time a new technology showed up, someone in the room declared the craft dead. Film photographers said digital killed the...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
You don’t find memorable photos on a plan, you find them by staying curious.(my favourite quote this week) Hello Hello 👋 Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about analysis on job impact because AI? ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive about why first lens is most important? I nearly didn't post the image that got me the most response last year. It wasn't technically impressive. The light was flat, the composition was nothing special, and it didn't match anything else I'd put out. I...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Travel changes your perspective; the right lens lets others see it too. (my favourite quote this week) Hello Hello 👋 Quick Catch-Up From Last Week ⁍ From the JustDraft about Perplexity Computer. ⁍ Read our LensLetter Archive about telling great stories with photography. Walk into any camera shop with £1,200 to spend, and you'll almost certainly walk out with a £900 camera body and a £150 kit lens bundled together. It's the default. The manufacturer's "starter pack." And honestly? It looks...
2 months ago • 7 min read