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✦ July
Closer #013
I'm reconsidering my approach, but I'm not sure I'm willing to change it. Not right now. These are still interesting times we live in.
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2025 Recent posts
✦ June
Soul searching in Greece (again)
Tears of relief as I'm waist-deep in the ocean, trying to see if I can dance still. I can, I think, I CAN, I scream. So that's how we make our way over the island. Curious to learn, relieved the fire still burns.
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✦ June
Closer #012
Imagine a cat behind a closed door, only paws and nose peeking from under the small crack between the door and the floor. Now imagine it again. How different are those results? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
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✦ June
Closer #011
We all know things can get weird in AI image land. But what if you give it a weird image? Will we get twice the weirdness or will they balance each other out?
2025 Recent posts
✦ June
Closer #010
SHOCKER: Asking AI for a direct replication of your work will give you a direct replication of your work. But does it really?
2025 Recent posts
✦ June
Building a daylight studio
This one is for my Amersfoort folks. It goes Tjommies, OostWest 1, OostWest City, Van Zanten, OostWest, Van Zanten, OW, VZ, OW, VZ, Tjommies, OW, VZ, OW, VZ, OW, VZ
2025 Recent posts
✦ June
Closer #009
Learning that it's the imperfections of our actions causing things to feel real is one of this week's biggest take-aways. And that's something I think we should ponder on for some time.
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✦ May
Closer #008
Eight weeks in. Time to evaluate early results and recalibrate accordingly. What other directions should we take this experiment in?
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✦ May
Closer #007
Not to ruffle someone's feathers but a little birdie told me to continue this newsletter until the pecking order between us, beautifully flawed and inherently creative humans, and AI, the ever logical mimicker of life, has been determined. Who comes out on top this week?
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✦ May
Closer #006
By popular demand, ChatGPT gets pushed aside to give Midjourney its chance to shine. This is also the first time I'm using a self portrait as the base image. What do I look like according to AI?
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✦ May
Wandering with wonder
Four cities, thousands of images, endless new impressions, one additional newsletter. April, 2025, was a rich, full month that allowed me to tap into my wanderlust as well as organize my thoughts a little.
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✦ May
Closer #005
What happens when an image is described super accurately, to the point that you can picture the thing in your mind with ease? Does AI have the same skills?
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✦ April
Closer #004
On the surface, things seem to be looking good. But look more closely, and you'll find that fiction is, thankfully, still stranger than reality.
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✦ April
Closer #003
I purposely chose to share a relatively complex black and white image with ChatGPT for this week's entry. Lots of layers and many things going on in the frame. The black and white edit also provides the AI with less context. How does it perform?
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✦ April
Closer #002
Although AI perfectly describes my input photograph, it somehow isn't able to reproduce an image that's the same as the original.
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✦ April
Closer #001
A surprising start to this new experiment. Using one of my favorite portfolio images from 2023, ChatGPT both accurately describes as well as impressively generates an image based on my original work.
2025 Recent posts
✦ April
April 5th, 2025
Writing Dialogue, my monthly newsletter about photography, exploration and other things, Closer, my weekly newsletter exploring photography in the age
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✦ April
Subscribe to my new weekly newsletter: Closer
Closer is a weekly newsletter where I take one of my photos, ask AI to describe it, then see what kind of image it can generate from its own description—an ongoing experiment in the capabilities of AI, and what that means for humans.