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A man in a black jacket and red over-ear headphones strides across a cobbled square, mid-step, backpack on. Behind him a row of tall, narrow houses runs away to the left in green, orange, yellow, pink, red and pale peach, each with its own gable. At the far end a brick church tower with a dark domed cap rises over the roofs. It's Wrocław's Market Square on a cool, cloudy day, … [Read more...] about Wrocław Market Square Almost Empty, With St Elizabeth’s Tower Above a Row of Colourful Gabled Houses

Two black spires, a rose window and three doorways fill a vertical frame from top to bottom, and a crowd in dark puffer jackets drifts across the paving in front. It's the west front of St Vitus Cathedral inside Prague Castle, shot from the middle of the third courtyard on a mid-October afternoon under heavy cloud. The camera is a phone, tilted up so far that the towers lean in … [Read more...] about St Vitus Cathedral West Front at Prague Castle Looks Medieval but Was Finished in 1929

A man on a red custom Moto Guzzi has stopped in the middle of a cobbled Bordeaux street, one hand at his collar, grinning straight into the lens. Open-face helmet, aviator sunglasses, grey beard, black leather gloves, tattoos down both forearms, orange boots. The bike sits a few metres from a café terrace. Nobody on that terrace has noticed. Bordeaux, late in the day. … [Read more...] about Custom Moto Guzzi in Central Bordeaux, and Only the Rider Looks at the Camera

A woman lies on a blue mat with her knees bent and both arms reaching straight up, caught at the top of a sit-up. A man crouches over her feet with both hands pinning them to the ground. Behind them a black wrought-iron railing runs the full width of the frame, and past the railing there's water and a blur of white boats. An ab workout on a terrace above the water, in … [Read more...] about Outdoor Ab Workout on a Harbour Viewpoint Terrace, Framed by Wrought Iron and Cast-Iron Benches

Three arches sit inside each other like nesting bowls, and the smallest one holds a half-round window with a bright street showing through it. Under the arches, grey columns with carved capitals run toward an open iron gate. Beyond the gate there's a McDonald's sign. The plaster overhead is cracked, and a bare tube light hangs on a cable in front of the glass. Looking … [Read more...] about Peeling Painted Arcade Frames a McDonald’s at Its Far End

Photographers talk about light more than gear, and for good reason. The same scene shot at two different times can look like two different places. Golden hour is the stretch just after sunrise and just before sunset, when the sun sits low and the light is warm and soft. Shadows are long, skin looks kind, and everything glows a little. It's popular because it works. The hour … [Read more...] about Golden Hour, Blue Hour and the Case for Shooting Overcast

They look similar. They're sold differently, and mixing them up can get you in real trouble. Stock photography is made to be used. A smiling team around a laptop, a bowl of fruit, a generic city skyline. Photographers get signed releases from people in the frame, and from property owners where needed, so a buyer can use the picture in ads, on packaging or on a … [Read more...] about Stock Photography vs. Editorial Photography: Who Pays for What

Some of the best free images on the internet come from institutions that decided to open up their collections. You don't need a stock subscription for a lot of this. A Dutch Golden Age still life, a 19th-century map of Lisbon, a photograph of a nebula: it's all sitting there, high resolution, and much of it can go on a website, a book cover or a T-shirt without you paying a … [Read more...] about Public-Domain Image Archives Worth Bookmarking

Alt text is the short description attached to an image so that someone using a screen reader can follow the page. It also shows up when an image fails to load. Most sites treat it as a box to tick. That's a waste. Writing good alt text means deciding what the image is doing on the page. That's an editorial call, the same as picking a headline. Describe the point Take a photo … [Read more...] about Alt Text Is Editorial Work, Not a Compliance Chore