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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • I think he does a great job of explaining how he thought about his pictures before taking them. How they were composed, exposed and developed to say what he wanted to say with each photo. He was from a time when you had to haul a heavy ass camera out into the wilderness and up a mountain, guess the correct exposure, with only a few chances to get the shot, and no way to know how it was going to look until you get back to your dark room and start working on the plate/film. The stakes were so much higher for each shot, I feel like his insights are extremely valuable nowadays, where the machine-gun photography approach is so common