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In another thread I asked people to suggest interesting sites for reading about photography instead of reading about gear: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1502929/0#14154088
There were lots of interesting suggestions, and one from FM member Bernie, who pointed us to a site I'd never heard of: http://www.lensworkonline.com/ Bernie wrote in his comment "When you're ready to leave the hardware behind and think about the art of photography"
Was I ever ready! I've gone through too many bouts of GAS over the years and it's annoying and boring (and costly) when it flares up. Many photographers seem to be fellow sufferers.
I took Bernie's advice and checked out the Lenswork site. This post is a bit of a shout-out for the site. (I have no financial or other interest in it apart from a one year subscription I just bought!) It's an unusual website in that just about everything is behind the pay wall. Your own philosophy may be that everything should be free, but this site seems to be the livelihood of the people that run it, and they've chosen to make the information available only to subscribers.
I suspect their model keeps a lot of people away, if for no other reason than they can't tell if it's worth paying for. I'm here to tell you that if you want to read about photography not cameras*, then the $59 you'll spend on a one year full access electronic subscription will be money well spent.
* That expression, "Photography Not Cameras" is actually straight from the Lenswork site, where it's one of the features available to subscribers.
Lenswork itself started out as a physical magazine about photography and photographers with no advertisements. It's still a physical magazine (and you can buy just the subscription to the magazine if you want). However, it's also available as PDF versions of the magazine, and with the subscription I have, a whole bunch of other stuff (videos, pod casts, interviews with photographers, etc.)
The style of photography may not be your cup of tea. There's a lot of black and white, which is why I cross-posted to the Black & White Vision forum**. But there's lots of colour too. It's landscape heavy, but by no means only landscape. There's a ton of content about other photographers. I'm discovering all kinds of people whose work I enjoy and who I will watch for in future.
** If black and white is your thing (it's mine for sure) then a one year subscription may be the single best investment you can make.
The thing I like the most about the site is that there's virtually no discussion of camera gear. There's some good material on some post-processing topics, but it's the minority. Most of the material is about photographs, photography and photographers. Reading through the issues of the magazine I usually learn nothing about the cameras and lenses people used to make the images. That is really refreshing! If you want your photography to go places where new gear won't take it, then this may be a site for you.
My only caveat is that there's a whole lot of Brooks Jensen. He's the editor, writer, and narrator. I appreciate his ideas, approach and taste, but if you don't you might tire of the site after all.
So Bernie, thanks for the tip!
Rob de Loe
www.robdeloephotography.com
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