How to increase the performance of your canon kit lens

Yeah, this looks legit. I'm going to have to try this...

(Inside joke among Canon users. Ha!)

The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer

As we saturate the world with images, it's great (and funny, and interesting) to remember these words written my M.F. Agha in 1937. Here is his "The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer" that was published in U.S. Camera:

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To be a successful photographer...

To be a successful photographer, you must possess both vision & focus neither of which have anything to do with your eyes.

- Kevin Russo

Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting

Photographer Jeff Harris takes us on a journey through his life with his self portraits. This is beautiful. Watch this in full-screen.

Beauty Product from 'Fotoshop'

Great spoof commercial with subtle strong social commentary:

"Pro-pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon microbead extract feature nutritive volumizing technology."

Nice.

What's a Good Year (Photographically)?

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

- Ansel Adams

Happy New Year! Go get your camera... get started...

Limitations in Your Photography

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

- Ernst Haas

Art Is Like Masturbation

Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end.

- Colin Wright

It's an interesting take... Yes? No? Overly simplified?