In the "oldies" when you had a fail in your photography it could usually be traced to something YOU did wrong. In the past 10 years or so if you have a fail in your photography, then it is because the manufacturer or the designer of cameras did some thing wrong. I know that I am getting fed up with the flaws of modern technology and in special all those riddiculesly expencive cameras that are being pushed to photographers half built or badly buildt as in the case of my latest experience with a Hasselblad and a H3D50 back.

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Doing Raw street photography in black and white, like in this image of the chef of Likangers Cafe Herman grilling for people at a festival night, is nice. In its simplicity it draws me back to the days when I used the Yashicamat 124G camera and the fun of using that for candid shots. This one is as simply done as there can be and the more I go out with my camera the more I leave behind of lenses and junk. One camera, one lens and maybe a flashgun like in this instance.. Those are the tools needed to make a picture. The rest of the tools are in your vision and mind.....Lets read more

Censorship in photography is common. It is happening every day, in all the news media that we have, and its not always that good. But I guess it can be justified from time to time. Press photography is a delicate matter. Magazine photography is an other thing, and then we got the naked flesh to think about.How dangerous can that be. 

I know it is a minefield to wander into, the deal of wikileaks and the latest developments there, but I could not but think about it when I remembered this Poster of a painting by  Fernando Botero showing a naked woman in front of the bathroom mirror partly covered by an american flag, from the Usa my way series. We where in Amalie Island and this shop and gallery owner had put up a poster with the works of one of his artists. He got charged with spreading porn but as that did not stick, those puritanists that saw pornography in the image managed to presure the town council so badly that he was orderd by the town to remove the image on the grounds of spreading porn.
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