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      <title><![CDATA[The First Frame Is Rarely the Right One]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My first shot of a scene almost always has something off about it. Here is why I stopped walking away after the first click.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Four Paces Apart]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I didn't realize how often I wait for strangers to line up in groups of three or four until I started putting my old folders side by side.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What I Look For When Nothing Is Happening]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most days on the street are pretty uneventful. This is what goes through my head when I'm walking around waiting for something to catch my eye.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Discipline of a Single Lens]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Turns out the focal length I avoided was the one that taught me to look a little harder.]]></description>
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