Bear Photographer Heavyweight Tee tri-x

Bear Photographer Heavyweight Tee tri-xA grizzly bear in a photographers vest, hunched behind a DSLR and a long telephoto on a tripod, doing exactly what every wildlife photographer in the woods is also doing only better dressed for it. The joke lands because it is barely a joke: spend enough cold mornings in the field and you start to suspect the animals would make better photographers than the people chasing them. More patience. Better camouflage. Already on location. There is a real

The funniest kind of true — because every photographer owns a drawer of orphaned lens caps

and watched the light do absolutely nothing

Normal people watch the sun go down

several formats

the way that light would render on black-and-white film rated a stop faster than the box says

There’s a lesson in that for anyone over fifty with a shutter finger still in working order

hunched behind a DSLR and a long telephoto on a tripod

Aperture sets how much light the lens lets through

and you are close to correctly exposed without ever touching a meter

the setting that renders everything sharp from foreground to infinity — and used it as a manifesto

Every photographer eventually feels the pull toward the slower

medium format