Photos of the Day: A Louvre Queue, Taormina, Catania's Old Streets, Lisbon Pastries, and a Château Roundabout
Five random frames pulled out of the travel folder today. No theme, no thread connecting them, just what came up.
Caught this moment at the fairgrounds — pure Oktoberfest energy
There’s something timeless about this frame.
The Best Room at Lisbon's Gulbenkian Museum Had One Visitor in It
I took this at 14:14 on a Wednesday in October, in the French rooms of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. One man, black polo shirt, hands clasped…
I Photographed a Wrasse at Wrocław's Afrykarium and Still Can't Name the Species
This is the best frame I got in about forty minutes of standing at the Red Sea tank in Wrocław, and I've spent longer than I want to admit trying to…
Inherited Frames: How Canaletto, Friedrich and De Chirico Still Compose the Photographs We Take in Europe
Almost no view worth photographing in Europe is unframed. Someone standardised it, usually a painter, usually for money, and usually long enough ago…
Museum Gallery Photography: The Room Is the Picture, Not the Painting
Almost every photograph taken in an art museum is a bad copy of something that already exists in better quality on the institution's own website…
The Art of Reportage
There is a moment, visible in any photograph of a live television crew at work, that crystallizes something essential about the entire project of…
On Fujifilm Color Science
The phrase gets overused to the point of meaninglessness but in Fujifilm's case it points at something real. The film simulations are not filters…
Marienplatz, Munich
The Glockenspiel is a disappointment at any hour and especially at eleven in the morning when everyone has gathered to watch it. Forty-three bells…