2025
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Why Light Is My Subject in Photography
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. The world is so open.There’s so much to do, to see, to explore, and to photograph.I mean, it is such an abundantly beautiful world out…
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Once your everyday life feels like a daily vacation, you no longer have the same desire to travel as you once have before?
The word “vacation” comes from the Latin root: vacātiō – meaning “freedom” or “exemption”, particularly from duty, service, or occupation. From vacāre, meaning “to be empty, free, or at leisure.”
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Street Photography Breakdown: Part 19 – Play, Chaos & Photographing Childhood with Depth
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Street Photography Breakdown, Part 19, where we look at five different photographs, breaking down their compositions and how the images were made—each with…
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Philadelphia Is the New Athens
It’s Dante, currently walking through Jefferson Station here in Philadelphia. It’s a bit rainy today, so I stepped inside. And yeah—today’s fun thought is about walking and exploration and why…
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Street Photography Breakdown: Part 18 – Symbolism, Tension & Stories Hidden in Plain Sight
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Street Photography Breakdown, Part 18, where we break down five photographs, exploring the behind-the-scenes moments and the mindset behind how each photo was…
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Logan Square, Philadelphia – 2022 | 2025
Just let ChatGPT decide. No more photo editors Two black-and-white photographs. Two figures defying gravity atop monumental statues. One winner. A surreal moment. A woman clings to the side of…
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Autistic Bitcoin Strategy
Two cows. One BTC. One meal a day. One mission. This is my life.It’s not neurotypical. It’s not meant to be.It’s efficient. It’s sovereign. It’s clean. The autistic mind isn’t…
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Street Photography Breakdown: Part 17 – Courage, Composition & Life Unfiltered
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Street Photography Breakdown, Part 17, where we look at five different photographs, breaking down their compositions and how they were made. The hope…
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Follow the Light: Street Photography Tips Using Sunlight, Shadow, and Intuition
What’s poppin people?It’s Dante going for my morning walk here on John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Philadelphia. Basking in the glory of the sun. Just following the light. You know, this…
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Street Photography Breakdown: Part 16 – Courage, Repetition & the Heroism of the Everyday
What’s poppin people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Street Photography Breakdown, Part 16, where we look at five different photographs—breaking down their compositions and the behind-the-scenes of how they were made.…
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Rooted in Soil
Rooted in soil —We the new royal.Before you ascend, you must charge up like a coil. Spring.Everything’s in flux.I’ve got Bitcoin — I don’t need your bucks. I’m unattached to…
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I’m not seeking to be understood. I want to understand.
A very simple yet radical idea- I’m not asking to be loved. I want to love!
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The Function of a Church
So my new radical idea about the function of the Catholic Church, specifically, is that it’s simply a place to bring families together and raise children in a beautiful place,…
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Why Photography Is Empowering
Good morning, Philadelphia.What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Just getting my morning started here in Center City, Philadelphia. I’ve got the Ricoh GR III snapshotting my way through the morning, and…
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