Now, and I accept it's far better than the alternative; but growing old seems a painful process. As we ripen, some grow insidiously to the right; for others, myself included, nothing could be further from the truth. However, I am experiencing [...]
Now, and I accept it's far better than the alternative; but growing old seems a painful process. As we ripen, some grow insidiously to the right; for others, myself included, nothing could be further from the truth. However, I am experiencing [...]
Listening to Jeff Buckley, I'm gripped by an almost overpowering sadness and melancholia floods the room. As tears trickle down my cheeks, I realise I'm again crying. Not that I'm counting; but this is at least the second time in [...]
On Fuji X-H2S And Street Photography There are days when I just love life, days such as this when I get to tell you all about the Fujifilm X-H2S. And then there are days like the one I got soaked through to [...]
On the 25th January the doors opened on the newly refurbished three floors of 49 Jermyn street, the Centre for British Photography. Approaching from Piccadilly, I saw a long queue of people in Jermyn Street and I truly believed this [...]
Streetphotography.com – Leica M11 review Anticipation, such a bittersweet sensation, rather like the buzz of Street Photography; the delicious excitement that gets the juice buds flowing. Will the moment, live up to expectations and linger on the lips forever? Or [...]
When asked to write about Street Photography, it made me consider what I actually thought Street Photography was and what it has become, concluding that for me it is very different now to what it once was. I am a great [...]
The Monochrome Set By Andy Blackmore After a certain number of hours at the helm of a busy picture desk the steady soft rhythm, phut, phut, phut, of expletives uttered under your breath sounds like some spluttering Seagull outboard motor. While the [...]
Leica May Have Missed An Opportunity With Their New Film Camera
Michael Ernest Sweet, 26th September 2022
Leica May Have Missed An Opportunity With Their New Film Camera By Michael Ernest Sweet It is rumored that Leica will release a new film camera this autumn. Digging around, I also see that more detailed rumors suggest an October [...]
The Art of Critiquing Street Photography By Michael Ernest Sweet Over the past decade I have judged more than a dozen street photography contests. In those contests, I looked at thousands and thousands of photographs. And yet, with all of [...]
Street Photography Has No Clothes I originally wrote the following essay for HuffPost back in 2015. At that time, street photography was exploding. The digiverse was drowning in street images, and a lot of them were not great. I proposed [...]
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