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I have never had a mentor. Nobody took me under their wing, showed me the ropes, critiqued my contact sheets over coffee. But I have been coached by the legends anyway. Sort of. My coaches are dead or unreachable, and they do not know I exist. I studied their books until the pages fell out.…

Fujifilm’s Eterna film simulation looks gorgeous in theory. Muted, cinematic, classy. So I set the X100VI to Eterna for street shooting and waited for the magic. The magic never came. My photos looked flat and washed out, like the life had been gently removed. Technically fine. Emotionally absent. Here is the thing I should have…

I have shot a lot of Fuji lenses. Wide, normal, telephoto, zooms, the tiny pancakes. So when people ask me for the best Fuji lens for street photography, I actually have an answer instead of a shrug. But first, the philosophy, because the answer will not make sense without it. Street photography is about moving…

After a year of shooting street photography and filming every walk, I have boiled the whole thing down to three elements. Color, light, and weirdos. If you have all three in one frame, you have a banger. Two out of three is a keeper. One is a Tuesday. Color first. I shoot JPEG, so the…

I have a confession. I own more old Canon digicams than any sane person should, and I am not a sane person when it comes to cameras. There is a shelf in my house that is basically a museum of early 2000s Canon engineering, and I dust it about as often as I dust anything,…

Here is something embarrassing for a guy who shoots every day: I am scared to shoot in the rain. Not nervous. Not cautious. Scared. It does not matter that a camera says “weather sealed” on the box. Rain is water, water is the enemy of electronics, and I paid real money for my cameras. The…

Ninety-nine videos. I have posted ninety-nine videos to this channel, which means I have learned exactly ninety-nine lessons, most of them the hard way. Here is what I actually know now that I did not know at video one. First, consistency beats quality. I know, every creator guru says that, and it sounds like permission…

I found a 45 year old Canon A-1 at a thrift store, and I am still a little dizzy about it. The A-1 was Canon’s big swing in the late seventies, the camera that said film shooters were ready for electronics. Forty-five years later, it still feels like the future, just a future that smells…

Quebec City at night in the cold is the kind of place that makes you forget your fingers are no longer technically working. I took the Fujifilm X-E2 out for a night of street photography and came back with that filmic look I keep chasing: deep shadows, glowing windows, and streetlights doing all the heavy…

Yes, the title is a pun. No, I am not sorry. Let me tell you why the Fujifilm X-H2 became my pick for street photography, and it is not the reason you think. Everyone wants to talk about resolution and autofocus modes and burst rates. I want to talk about the one question that matters:…