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Also for anyone interested, Magnum is running a 20% off Summer Course sale right now with some heavyweights. Just picked up... Mark Power: Picturing Place Cristina de Middel: Stranger than Reality Gregory Halpern: Documentary Sur/Realism Matt Black: The Documentary Commitment Jonas Bendiksen: Curiosity in Practice Bieke Depoorter: Chance Encounters Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling

Speaking of VW charm https://www.autoevolution.com/news/artful-canadian-engineer-spits-out-the-vw-frankencopter-a-different-kind-of-luftwaffe-255331.html

Because everyone's summer should have a little counterbalance with Nietzsche. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gay-science-1-preface-i-1-i-9/id1573808070?i=1000661659055

Hope it's wonderful.

Gangstagrass

Or becoming a Knight of Infinite Resignation

Read this a few months back, but as Beinart is making the rounds.

The Quiet Melodrama of Todd Hido https://aperture.org/editorial/the-quiet-melodrama-of-todd-hidos-photographs/

Forum showing one day in the future (or geographic accurate time), so happy another spin Antonio!

RIP Tom Troupe. Honestly, I don't know who are, but anyone who starred in Mary Hartman, The Devil's Brigade, Cheers, CHiPs, Star Trek, The Diary of Ann Frank, Cagney & Lacey, Kelly's Heroes, and My Own Private Idaho, deserves a tribute. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tom-troupe-dead-stage-screen-actor-1236324292/ https://abc7ny.com/post/actor-tom-troupe-dies-97-home-beverly-hills/17217594/

Cool

Character lens train. The LLL 50mm f/1.5 Z21 (Angenieux S21 recreation) arrived this afternoon. Only time for a few nearby shots (mostly at f/1.8) due to work, but might be fun.

Beautiful

Iiu Susiraja’s Self-Portraits Are More Than a Dare https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/iiu-susirajas-self-portraits-are-more-than-a-dare https://web.archive.org/web/20250721014944/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/iiu-susirajas-self-portraits-are-more-than-a-dare?mbid=social_bluesky

Congrats and nice shots! Curious how the low light noise would compare if you shot the A7R5 in 26MP or 15 modes (or even downsampled the 60MP to 24)?

Shirley & Company - Shame, Shame, Shame

Soccer Mommy does Pavement

Not really any new news, but Sunshine was mentioned in the NYTimes today https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/maine-arrest-paddleboarder-homicide.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU8.U18S.PmIKYhI8LmAu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (Gift article)

Kinda interesting to compare size of the full frame Sony RX1R III f/2 and the $200 cheaper medium format Fuji GFX100 RF f/4.

I always do, but at that price it would be a different model.

Just in case someone can make use of this one way or another. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215798863-audiophile

Ran Blake - Grey December (Live in Rome) Ex.

Lucy Dacus - Limerence