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ewen

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Editorial photographer. Author, writer and mentor. Traveller and lover of the Arctic and Himalayas. Partner to Shellie Froudevaux.

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I think I wanna make a post for the blog about why people get bored with photography.

So would love to hear from anyone who hit that wall, and managed to bounce back.

Or didn't bounce back even?

Professionals do get bored with the job. Making a living from photography can kill some of the fun. But also it can keep you moving forward when you might otherwise be too lazy.

Please share your thoughts.

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There's a few workshops we run every year. Same place, Same format. Same inspiration.

The only way I keep it fresh for ME each year is to literally shoot with a different lens or camera. A different perspective.

If I'm not seeing it fresh, then my workshop folk won't be getting a fresh version of me either. That matters.

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@ewen Yeah, I think that reason (I am often shooting similar things in places I know) is part of why I've fallen down the hole of ending up with so many cameras.

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Finding the right bag is harder than finding the right camera.

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@vampiress

I am conducting that experiment as we speak :)

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@ewen My bank balance is strongly indicating that I am as well.

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Anybody had a good look at the Cara app? Is it hype, or is IG gonna tip over a cliff?

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I haven't had much of a look around, but when I hit the "photography" hashtag it's mostly the actual owner of the site :)

Really wish they had made it ActivityPub friendly. Keep getting the feeling we're so close to a tipping point for social media, where the algorithms finally get drowned out by choice.

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@ewen Yeah. There are advantages to the closed model in some situations - I found Glass was well designed and looked great... but I left largely because of that. I wanted to be a part of a de-corporatisation of social media, not yet another company playground.

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Here's something Samsung don't tell you when you browse the website for a new 27" monitor.

The external power supply that is roughly the size of a house brick. Samsung can get in the bin. Their advertising is intentionally misleading.

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@ewen Fwoah! That's ghastly!

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Quote of the day...

"Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't understand how anything works."

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Oh the temerity of these spam feeders, invoking the words of @pluralistic in their campaigns to fill the internet with shit.

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@ewen Different Doctorow (no relation)

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I refuse to stand by and just be slandered as "from the Antipodes" by someone who practically lives on the opposite side of the planet.

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Well we can't all be Antipodean?

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@ewen @DJDarren Surely if some of us are antipodean, SOMEONE has to just be... podean?

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Daylesford workshop is underway. Full house and loads of photography this weekend. Delicious and bokehlicious!

Shellie is the rock star of the weekend though. She makes the magic happen :)

https://ewenbell.com/food

Farmhouse
Autumn colours
Beets

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"Motion on Motion with ICM"

Intentional Camera Movement meets Bhutanese prayer wheels. Now on YouTube and PeerTube.

https://youtu.be/vlZbk49VBLY

https://makertube.net/w/p7UAUXn77akjo6cucvyHLq

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Made the mistake of reading something by Annabel Crabb, and I won't waste my time doing that again.

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It's really put me in a bad mood today.

Glibly missing the point is her brand. Instead of digging into nuance, she steps sideways to make the story about something she wants to talk about. Typically something more clickbaity.

That's how we ended up getting recipes for curry from an immigration minister, instead of talking about the traumatisation of refugees.

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@ewen She's the perfect Status Quo Cheerleader.

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The latest news on third-party lenses for Canon RF mount should be viewed with intense cynicism.

Canon are only permitting APS-C lenses to be licensed. They're giving a veneer of options to potential buyers, when in fact they have no intention of letting full frame owners have access to professional lenses outside of their own brand.

Could be that my old 5D will be the last Canon camera I ever own.

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@vampiress

Have been impressed how well my old EF Sigma lenses work with the Sony adaptor.

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@ewen I actually haven't tried that yet. Though, partly because I have equivalents in E mount for all my old Canon lenses now - except the obligatory 22-75 kit lens thing I still have floating around anyway.

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I too am Voyager 1. Sending out garbled messages on account of corrupted memory. Waiting for that remote signal and a chance to switch to a different part of my brain.

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Much like Voyager 1, I too have managed to travel far beyond my original design. I have confounded the most optimistic of expectations.

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@ewen I've DEFINITELY exceeded my original design specifications. 😅

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I had a look at TikTok. My conclusion is that we're soooooo lucky to have Mastodon.

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I feel like I'm being yelled at even with the sound off. Even the colour saturations are yelling at me.

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@ewen It makes me feel very old. And my younger friends seem to be so confused why I don't want to watch 30 second videos.

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In some ways the camera makes it hard to reach your full creative potential.

It makes it easy to get into the game initially, but those easy results don't always push us to keep digging deeper. And then, every so often, I see some talented folks on Mastodon who are digging deeper and it's like being woken from slumber.

It's great to have this community here.

@photography

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