How clear is your vision?
This month I reflect on clarity, the birth of 33punt, and why integrated creativity isn’t a luxury but a necessity. If you want to know what we’re building, and why it matters, this one’s for you.
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Photography in the Age of AI (2025): Lessons From 25 Weeks of Experimentation
Over 25 weeks, I tested whether AI can match the emotion and imperfection of human photography. The results? AI is fast and functional but still sterile. Here’s what this experiment reveals about the future of photography in the age of AI.
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
Covering
Walking every street of my hometown, Amersfoort, while photographing every nook and cranny. Documenting the things I see along the way.
It's all out there, right now
A good beach has white sand, they tell you. Preferably as finely grained as possible. Like a powder that's sprinkled on the edges of the land. The frosting on the cake, if you will.
The glorious, life-invigorating act of walking
When I first landed on Craig Mod's website and read he describes himself as a 'writer, photographer, and walker,' I was a little confused. What the hell does it mean to 'be a walker'?
My six favorite Fujifilm film simulation recipes
I think we can all agree that Fujifilm's film simulations are amazing. That's why I have created six film simulation recipes that have been living on both my Fujifilm X100V and X-Pro3 for the better part of a year now.
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271 | A (few) word(s) a day #09
Final stop! It’s not home but it feels like it. Tarifa, I love you already.
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270 | A (few) word(s) a day #08
Plants everywhere in these white streets.
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269 | A (few) word(s) a day #07
Public transport fiasco
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268 | A (few) word(s) a day #06
Sun-kissed
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267 | A (few) word(s) a day #05
Itinerary-switch (and that’s totally fine).
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266 | A (few) word(s) a day #04
Exploration
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De Lens Loves You and De Ontluiking
In this issue I have more things to sell (watch me try to navigate a sales pitch without making you feel like you are mere customers to me) and I have a, rather big, announcement to make.
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265 | A (few) word(s) a day #03
I have time so I will make this story a little longer than one word today. The
rules are mine
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264 | A (few) word(s) a day #02
Siesta
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263 | A (few) word(s) a day #01
Excitedly tired
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262 | This man can use a break
Importing photos from the cameras onto my computer. Sync them all up to the
cloud. Don’t look at the
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261 | Out shootin’ (part 2)
Hey friends, it’s another day and we’re out shooting for De Ontluiking again.
Two days, one story. That’
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260 | Out shootin'
Today, I just want to implore you to go and read the story on ontluiking.nl.
I’ll be out
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259 | LIVE! We are live!
LIVE! We are live! If you know any Dutch words — though preferably a lot of them
— you can read a
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258 | A draft, in the inbox
A draft, in the inbox. That was the main objective for today. It wasn’t mine to
make happen as
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257 | Tinkering, releasing, producing, synthesizing, vacationing
I can’t stop tinkering. I just can’t I’m a little too excited. Possibly for
nothing. Nevertheless, I
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256 | How I set up my Fujifilm film simulations
I only use two film simulations on my Fujifilm cameras: Classic Chrome and Acros+R for color and black & white shots respectively. I use heavily modified variations of Fuji X Weekly recipes for both.
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255 | Something’s bubbling again
Something’s bubbling again. I can’t describe it. There are no words, yet. All I
have is the feeling.