For compact, the top options seem to be the Fujifilm x100 series, Ricoh GR series (iii is the latest but the iv was just announced), or Sony cyber shot rx100 series. But fyi none of those allow interchangeable lenses if you want to play w those

Does this count as a street fruit

Would love that (on a not too sweltering day!)

I love a good challenge (and am also mentally/creatively spent lol)

Every 5 mins there’s a new challenge, like “draw me a boat!” but you have no pen or “sing me the ‘under’ song!” but you don’t know what that is, and you just have to adapt. Harder than any standardized test that ostensibly scores intelligence

“I’ve always said photography is a silent medium. It is what mime is to the performing arts.”
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“Photography is more like poetry now.“

—Robert Pledge, comparing photography to video

“Somehow my brain and eyes are in cahoots. It’s a two-way street.” — Philip Perkis, Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled

“Position is where everything happens from.” — Frederick Sommer (quoted in Philip Perkins, Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled)

“Before a man can be a seer he must be a looker.” - Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness

Gowanus, day after 4th of July fireworks

It was also immense and glowing soft orange and through the binoculars could see the scraggly edges of all the craters and the highlight at its edge 😌