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I’ve shot just about every Fujifilm APS-C sensor generation, and I have a conclusion that surprised even me: the best black and white Fujifilm camera is the X-Pro2. A camera from 2015. Almost by accident. Let me be clear about what I’m not saying. I’m not saying it’s the best Fujifilm camera. The newer bodies…

Every beginner asks about gear first. It’s the wrong first question, but I understand it, because gear is the part you can buy. Mindset you have to earn. So here’s the honest order: mindset first, technique second, gear last. Mindset is deciding to go out and shoot, regularly, without waiting to feel ready. Technique is…

Ponce City Market is a photographer’s playground wearing a food hall costume. Old Sears building, great bones, endless texture, and a rooftop with the Atlanta skyline doing all the work for you. I brought the X100VI, because it’s the perfect walkaround camera: small, quiet, and the JPEGs need nothing. Inside the market it’s all warm…

Every few months somebody declares photography dead. Phones killed it, AI killed it, nobody buys cameras anymore, the sky is falling. I have been hearing some version of this since I picked up a camera, and somehow I keep taking pictures. Here is what I think. The camera industry is not what it was in…

I live in a small town. Louisville, Tennessee, population not many. And I shoot street photography there, which confuses people who think street photography requires a subway and eight million strangers. Small town street photography is a different game. You cannot be invisible, so do not try. Be the friendly guy with the camera. Say…

The Ricoh GR snap focus is the whole reason the camera exists, as far as I am concerned. Preset a distance, and the camera fires instantly with everything in focus at that range. No hunting, no missing the moment. There is just one problem if you grew up in America. The distances are in meters.…

Somebody asked me whether street photographers are storytellers or just witnesses, and I had to think about it longer than I would like to admit. Here is where I landed. I am a witness. I show up, I see something, I take the picture. I am not constructing a narrative arc with a beginning, middle,…

Nobody asked me for advice, which is exactly why I am giving it. The hard truth is that your camera does not matter nearly as much as you think it does. I know, because I own an embarrassing number of cameras, and the good pictures did not start showing up when I bought the expensive…

The X-Pro2 is the camera I reach for when I want to feel like a photographer from a better era. Hybrid viewfinder, real dials, that satisfying mechanical clunk. It takes wonderful pictures, especially the JPEGs, which is all I shoot. So is it still good in 2025? Yes. Completely. The sensor holds up, the colors…

Layering is when a street photo has multiple things happening at different depths, foreground, middle, background, all lined up like the universe planned it. And the internet loves to fight about whether those shots are luck or staged. Here is my take. Most of them are patience disguised as luck. A photographer finds a great…