Experience & Ethics
We’re in the dead of winter. Winter brings to mind wind, snow, and storms, but this year Istanbul is having a mild and dry winter. While that’s bad news environmentally, …
Late December, temperatures below zero. My macro work mostly consists of processing photos from the archive. My camera is sitting in the bag. A predictable time of year. Luckily I …
Handheld shooting has some nice perks. Compared to tripod and natural light, your very best images might not be handheld—but on a macro walk, it’s the only way to freely …
At the time I wrote this, I’d been happily following natural-light, flash-free work for a long while. Out of a bit of laziness, I hadn’t tried it myself yet. My …
If the goal is macro, nothing beats being out in the field. Escaping the city’s crowded, noisy crush; working with live insects and flowers in their natural habitat; watching and …
The excitement you feel when doing anything for the first time is upon us today. We’re about to try, for the first time, a flash-free, open-air “focus stacking” session we’ve …
Long before I discovered photography Elementary school years… Village life. Times when I wasn’t just acquainted with nature but deeply intimate with it. The house I lived in was outside …