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The Print Gets Smaller When You Hang It
Almost everyone orders one size too small. Here is the rule of thumb that fixes it, the arithmetic most people never do, and the cheapest…
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Bondi or Manly? They Are Not the Same Beach.
Two beaches on the same Sydney harbour that I expected to be more alike than they are. One is the Australia in your head; the…
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You Probably Won’t Get the Mount Fuji Photo. We Didn’t.
Mt. Fuji is visible about 30% of days. We went to the most photographed view in Japan in the middle of an overcast October afternoon…
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Book the Arrowtown Bike Ride. Assume Something Will Break.
Thirteen miles, four and a half hours, and a chain that broke three times. The window is sized for a ride where nothing goes wrong…
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You Can’t Photograph a Glacier
Hubbard Glacier, Crater Lake, and the redwoods — three places, three trips, and the same unsolved problem every time. Some things are simply bigger than…
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How to Photograph the Sydney Opera House (And Why I Ruined Mine on Purpose)
Mrs Macquarie’s Chair at sunrise, the shot everybody gets, and the deliberate bump that turns a long exposure into brushwork — which only works if…
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The Border We Weren’t Allowed to Photograph
A palace six hundred years in the making, a broken umbrella in the rain, and a morning at the DMZ that wasn’t like anywhere else…
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The Worst Meal We Had in Japan Was Also the Most Photogenic
It looked like a perfect photo. It tasted like a crime. The real story of the worst meal we had in Japan — and why…
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Fushimi Inari, Japan: Where the Gates Never End
Everyone said go early or don’t bother. Two hours at Fushimi Inari before the crowds arrive is the whole margin you get — and it’s…
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The Picture He Wanted Was The One We Took
A 4 a.m. hike, an hour of sitting in the water before a single frame, and a client who chose which dozen images exist. What…