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Posted on February 4, 2022March 1, 2022

Why Is Facebook So Bad?

For photographers, Facebook is one of the big letdowns. It began as a great new way to get your photos seen, and to connect with people who liked them. But in just a few years it went south – and today, it often seems like a river of trash. Was this inevitable?

navigating your Facebook feed
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Posted on April 27, 2021February 23, 2022

Our Photo Bandwidth Is Declining

There’s a thread right now over at DPReview: “how do you accept that nobody cares about your photography?” I can’t answer that, but it got me thinking about a different one: how will we get anyone to even see our photography, when we’re losing photo bandwidth?

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Posted on July 9, 2020March 22, 2022

Facebook For Photographers: a Black Hole

Actual image of all my photos spiraling into the black hole that is Facebook, never to be seen by anyone.
Photo credit: NASA
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  • IDS Center, MinneapolisThe “Shift” of a Tilt-Shift Adapter
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  • Power on the Mississippi
  • Minneapolis, darker
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