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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238 | Please do not disturb me today
Please do not disturb me today. I am writing my newsletter, as promised.1
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1. Which basically means leaning
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237 | Empty screen, eyelessly staring at me
Empty screen, eyelessly staring at me. Flickering cursor, taunting me with my
indecisiveness. One flash, two flashes, three. It’s
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236 | Expanding my horizons one loop at a time
My loops are getting bigger and bigger. Every outing in the same direction ends
up being further than the previous
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235 | I want to move around, too
Looking around social media I see people living their best lives. Traveling,
going out for drinks, barbecues with friends; though
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234 | There’s only one thing wrong with the Fujifilm XF10
Don’t get me wrong, I love all Fujifilm cameras equally. In fact, I love all of them so much that I even went as far as purchasing the most hated Fujifilm camera out there: the XF10.
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233 | The responsibility of a documentarian
Okay this is going to sound a little pretentious (or maybe even a lot) but as of late I’m
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232 | Revisiting all three locations of The Silence Around
I cycled 25k to revisit all three locations of The Silence Around
[https://mitchellens.ink/the-silence-around] this afternoon. I figured
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231 | Appreciation
I love dark mode on my website.
I love all 246 posts in my journal.
I love that writing compliments
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230 | Good news, no more teasing!
Good news. Great news, even! The lovely folks of WPPOOL have helped me refine
the look of the dark mode
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229 | Spoken word
Wash away the strain with the rain that’s steadily falling from the sky. A day
filled with things to
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228 | I am ready to write longer stories. At least mentally
To be perfectly honest, I am a little over writing Monologues every day. I’m
sure I’m being misguided
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227 | More animals
We’ve had the two cutest little Chihuahuas staying at our place this
afternoon. Though the cats did not agree
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226 | Everyday is a treasure
Look at what Craig Mod wrote in his recent issue of Ridgeline
[https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/125/]:
“For me, this
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225 | A day by the clock
8:14 AM I’m waking up on thinking those couple of beers last night don’t seem
like such
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224 | Licensing photos from my photography archive, my initial ideas
Somebody slid into my mailbox the other day asking about using images from my
archive. Interesting. I was just watching
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223 | A simmering thought about black and white photography
Just an idea that requires some further though: black and white photography is
the purest medium in the world.
I’
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222 | There’s nothing wrong with priorities
Okay okay I’m already backtracking on my claims from yesterday
[/dark-mode-why-are-you-teasing-me/]. Dark mode is beautiful but also a pain
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221 | Dark mode why are you teasing me?
Dark mode on the web. It’s almost a basic necessity these days. Most of the
bigger websites have it