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A History Of Looking; Or, Why I Post Pictures Of My Children On The Internet
A couple of years ago, I received a very sweet e-mail from a self-professed ‘dedicated lurker’ who asked the following question: I wonder if you are ever concerned that your daughter’s (beautiful)...
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I Have One Or Two Important Life Skills. This Is Not One Of Them.
I’m often asked how I get the action captures in the photos that I upload to Instagram and that I post here, because everyone assumes that if you’re not a professional photographer using a fancy...
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Instagrammatica #17
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without,...
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Instagrammatica
I take a lot of photos of my kids. A lot of photos of my kids. More than I know what to do with. More than I can fit on my blog or in a Twitter stream or on my Facebook page or even in a good old...
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Me And Camera+, A Love Story
I’ve written a lot about Instagram here, I know. But, you guys, it is like a core part of my very being. It is how I am recording my children’s lives. It matters. And it matters almost as much as the...
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On Slow-Blogging And Now-Blogging And The Pace Of Things These Days
A few years ago, there was an article in the New York Times about the phenomenon – such as it was – of ‘slow blogging.’ It cited Todd Sieling, the Canadian blogger behind ‘the Slow Blog Manifesto’, who...
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The Cheater’s Guide To Making Phone Snapshots Look Amazing
Jason is a good friend of mine, and an amazing photographer. He’s awesome, but we have one point of disagreement: the extent to which ‘iPhoneography’ – capturing and editing photos with one’s mobile...
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, But Sometimes You Need A Thousand And One
I have a section on this site called ‘Instagrammatica.’ It’s right over there under the ‘Pictorial’ tab, and it’s exactly what you’d expect it to be: a feed of my Instagram photos. It’s been there for...
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Sometimes, You Live The Story As You Tell It
This is play, truly. This is what “watch me be the sunset Daddy!” looks like. This is the rejoinder to the complaint that life is documented more than it is lived. For us, it’s both, all at once. We...
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Flowers, she tells me, cannot swim. “They look like they do, because they look so pretty in the water. But ‘pretty’ doesn’t equal ‘can,’ so. You have to help them when you see them, or maybe teach...
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