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What is the reason behind the missing thumbnail in the third row?

I’m sure it is still been tweaked but it will be nice to have them under the year of publication.
Maybe a link for 2012 for example? or adding the year at the top of the page for the 2012 ones? it will avoid extra clicks.

Either way….looking GREAT!

I was never a big fan of Kane. Always appreciated the visuals but never cared much for the stories. After many years of totally ignoring them, lately I find myself very much enjoying the commentaries available on a lot of DVD’s, particularly Criterion Collections. The Kane commentary didn’t make me like the story any better but it very much deepened my appreciation of the visuals. And much as I tried over the years, I was never able to get what so many saw in Antonioni. Again, enjoyed the visuals, but even more so didn’t get the story. The commentary really helped, again providing a context for even deeper appreciation of the images.

To see as a photographer sees: Mikhael Subotzky at TEDxStellenbosch

Seems to me those two quotes end up at the same place coming from totally different directions. The important point both make, I think, is that it’s important to do a lot of work before you know what you can’t do. Going a bit further, I like to think that while it’s important to gradually fill a box with all of the things you’ve figured out you can’t do, it’s equally important to never get to a place where you feel you know all the things you can’t do. I think for the best it’s a constant pushing at those boundaries.

Thinking of things like this as I finally bear down and get my digital archive in order. I’ve been going through every photo I’ve taken since I got my first digital camera in 2004. I’d done a lot of work with film in the three years previous. I went through all that last time I was in my Mom’s basement and found next to nothing worthwhile. The early digital work is very sparse in terms of quality as well. But I can see and remember myself trying so many things that I didn’t know wouldn’t work. Most of them didn’t, but in many cases I see things I learned from those failed experiments manifesting themselves across the years. I think Glass has it right about keeping at it, and that’s something David constantly reiterates as well.