Se nu stiger solen

Danish choir. Gorgeous.

Pocket raincoat

I have found a brilliant product in (of all places) my fave book store: the EMERGENCY RAIN PONCHO. I like to walk about town carrying nothing outside my pockets, and it has often been ruined by the simple prospect of rain, prompting me to bring at least a bag-umbrella, and thus a bag. But this little package weighs nothing and fits in a small pocket, so my carefree and footloose walk style is undisturbed. I love it.

Be kind to children

You can get an idea of how your girlfriend will treat you later by watching how she behaves towards her little brother. 

I'm reminded of that sometimes with children. I think we need to generally treat children with more respect and politeness. 

For example I was at a place today, and two little children came in. They were smiling, happy, well-behaved. But if you listened to the way the adults spoke to them... "Do this!", "don't do that!", "go there!", "don't go there!" 

Any adult who were spoken to that way would be quite insulted, certainly I would. 

We speak to children that way for a very simple reason: because we can. Children are small and dependent on adults, they have no power. 

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I once saw a mother and her girl, perhaps 8 years old. The girl was crying and did not want to go where ever they were going. She was earnestly crying, she *really*, strongly, did not want to go. The mother didn't care, she said "well, we go this week, maybe we won't go next week". The girl said "you also said that last week. And next week we'll just be going anyway too..." 

It just broke my heart. It was clearly an optional thing they were going to. And it would have taken a *very* important reason for myself to force somebody to go somewhere they clearly felt so deeply about not going to. That girl was in pain about it. 

[Granted, there could be data which might make me see it differently, but I find it hard to imagine.]

Winogrand: "Women are Beatiful"

A few photos from Gary Winogrand: "Women are Beatiful".
I've long wanted to make such a project myself. I would like to do it in Copenhagen.

New oddball camera

Here is a new oddball camera. Nice to see something fresh.

Portrait in wire-mess, fantastic

Look at this really exceptional artist.

super-compact

The Z-E1 is definitely one of the smallest compact camera bodies with exchangable pro lenses and pro sensor size.

City abstracts from today

Minimusic said: "The iPhone6 and similar are making it harder to justify carrying even a small camera like my beloved little Ricoh GR."

Myself:
Yes, I agree with your statement. It's been a while since I brought out my fab compact, a bit sad, because sometimes I miss the zoom. 

On the other hand, I would not bring it anyway in circumstances where I was not pretty certain I would be photographing, and that's when you have the phonecamera. This walk is a good example. 

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(iPhone 6s+, auto)

SF for creative minds

A talk by Neil Gaiman, writer.
(I recommend his book American Gods.)
Interesting point: the Chinese are opening the doors to science fiction because they found out that the the Westeners who were inventive and creative read SF and fantasy when they were young! (And probably later too.) And the Chinese recognise that though they are very good at copying things, they really need more inventive minds.

M4/3 beats full frame again

Here's an article from a photographer who is now doing much better with his compact Micro Four Thirds cameras (even the entry model E-M10) than with bigger/heavier/costlier cameras.

Vancouver sunset

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Photo; Ray Sutton

Kewl house

Big and exeptional house.