kareem's onesie party

What can I say? I’m really tardy getting these photos up, but it was such a good time I have to share. They know how to throw a good party.

Posted by matt on 2016-01-04T07:03:51Z GMT

mountains and plains, coming into denver

I flew home to see my folks just after christmas. There was a cheap flight I found at the last minute, probably a glitch, but it went through, so I went. They were happy to see me and I wished I’d had more time to spend with them, but there’s never enough time.

Posted by matt on 2016-01-02T21:56:51Z GMT

monkey forest and points north

So this was our last day doing stuff in Ubud. The Ubud Monkey forest is half cultural preserve and half wildlife preserve, although its success at either seems dubious. It is good at extracting money from tourists, though. I sound really cynical, but in reality, it was a pretty good experience, wandering through a forest with ancient temples; the swarms of monkeys were funny, and left us alone entirely. There were warnings not to take food in, so we were careful not to.

Posted by matt on 2015-12-21T08:42:18Z GMT

in defense of prime lenses

note: this started out as a lens review, and there was a paragraph in the middle that wanted to be a whole essay on why fixed focal length lenses are better, artistically, than zooms. So I let it be that, and cut out the review parts. Sharpness is a bourgeois concept, and we will not speak of it further.

Posted by matt on 2015-12-15T07:19:46Z GMT

a breakthrough in the construction work

So, onto the breakthrough, the big idea, what have you: I realized I’ve been showing too much with the construction pictures. I had this impulse to get it all in, to show the whole, giant job site, as if that was the way to convey the scale of it. Unfortunately, none of those pictures really worked. There was something missing, and the compositions were never good enough. Then, last week, I was looking at Peter Turnley’s book on paris, French Kiss, and realized that the compositions shouldn’t be perfect, and that you can’t show everything. You have to cut some of it out.

Posted by matt on 2015-12-15T06:54:38Z GMT