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Mitchel Lensink

Systemic thinker, photographer, writer.
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A timeline of the work. Browse every post in reverse chronological order.

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2026 Recent posts
✦ May

How I organize photos in Lightroom (a simple system that scales) →

A simple Lightroom workflow built for long-term scalability. Learn how to organize photos using a single catalog, a Year > Month folder structure, metadata, Smart Collections, and backups that keep your archive searchable, approachable, and future-proof.
2026 Recent posts
✦ May

A decade with the Fujifilm XF35mm f2: My most trusted everyday Fuji lens →

It took me ten years to write this. After more than 60,000 photographs with the Fujifilm XF35mm f2, this became less of a lens review and more of a reflection on reliability, everyday carry photography, and documenting life over time.
2026 Recent posts
✦ May

Field trips for the greater good →

More field trips for more interesting experiences for better stories and more interesting work.
2026 Recent posts
✦ May

The Sand Engine: a human assist to nature →

A mega pile of sand is slowly eroding over time to protect the Dutch coastline. And that's interesting for a couple of reasons.
2026 Recent posts
✦ April

The Ricoh GR1-D: a minimal full-frame 28mm camera concept →

A full-frame, fixed 28mm camera built for speed, simplicity, and intent. No video, no screen, no distractions. Just a tool that stays out of the way and lets you take the shot.
2026 Recent posts
✦ April

Membership hub →

Thank you for supporting this ongoing body of work. It's built through walking, photographing, and shaping that material over time. This is your membership hub.
2026 Recent posts
✦ April

De Slufter: a weird name, for a unique place →

The only place in the Netherlands where the sea is allowed to win.
2026 Recent posts
✦ April
Featured

Coastwork →

An unplanned trip to Texel turned into a small field study of a coastline unlike any other. Being there, in the wind and water, brought back my fascination with the ocean and its edges.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Appendix →

The appendix serves two distinct purposes: to situate the framework within a broader body of knowledge, and to provide a compressed operational view of how it is applied.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Making closure a practice →

Understanding the Advance Filter is one thing. Keeping it alive in real situations is another. Closing a loop once is not that difficult, especially now that you have this framework. Keeping your system stable over time is where the real work begins.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Building community is overrated →

Community isn’t something you declare into existence. It forms over time, through shared identity and enough structure to sustain itself. Anything before that is branding.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

The Advance Filter →

Going from chaos to clarity in a few simple steps. That's what we'll do here. Don't expect any growth or productivity hacks. These are simple, scientifically-grounded, concrete, applicable things you can do today to get unstuck and start advancing in life again.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Knowing what to stop →

So far, we've been talking a lot about the way open loops accumulate, how they become an issue, and what you can do to solve those issues. But a large part of tackling those problems is also defined by what you decide to stop doing.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Define the shape of your work →

If you can imagine the final form your work should take, you can determine how much time and effort you should invest right now. Projects should be smaller before they become bigger. Loops should be shorter before they become longer.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Do not 'keep your options open' →

Keeping your options open is useful when starting something new. But when you're stuck, it becomes your biggest enemy. Commit, follow through, learn from the outcome, and adjust from there. Repeat this until direction becomes clear. Prefer finished over perfect; that’s where you actually learn.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

You're too competent to finish things →

If you’re reading this and you feel stuck, there’s a good chance you already know something important: the problem isn’t that you can’t do the work. It's something much more profound and therefore difficult to spot.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Why this framework exists →

You have ideas. Probably a lot of them. But if they stay in your head, they don’t really mean anything. At some point, it’s on you to turn them into something real. You do that by finishing things, even if they’re rough. That’s how you build proof, figure out what works, and achieve your goals.
2026 Recent posts
✦ March

Introduction →

Before we start, let's make sure that what you're about to read and (hopefully) learn, is in line with your expectations. If you are a creative person with a myriad of ideas that don't seem to fully come to life the way they're supposed to, this framework should help you break through that cycle.