2026

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today I want to discuss style in street photography — this notion of your authentic expression, who you are as a photographer. I think a…

Is man permitted to strive to become a demigod in this modern world? It seems that we’ve lost touch with myth, story, and meaning in this modern world of ultra-processed…

Maybe you won’t live forever, but at least you can make a photograph!

Today I’m thinking about why I shoot JPEG and don’t shoot RAW. Essentially, I shoot with a JPEG file — even with a monochrome camera — with a JPEG recipe,…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today we’re going to be looking at photographs I made yesterday with my Ricoh GR4 Monochrome on the streets of Philadelphia. I started my day…

The word diary ultimately comes from the idea of “daily.” Originally, diarium referred to something like a daily ration or allowance, especially for soldiers. Over time the meaning shifted to…

The more that I shoot consistently every single day, the less I care about the content within my frames. The notion that the content, the story, the subject itself has…

That’s an interesting contrast, and linguistically you’re pointing at two attitudes that can look similar on the surface but feel very different in spirit. Equanimity means calmness and balance of mind,…

(切ない / setsunai) is a Japanese word that describes a bittersweet, aching emotional feeling. It’s difficult to translate perfectly into English, but it usually means something like: It’s the feeling when something is beautiful…

“Once Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.He didn’t know he was Zhuangzi.Suddenly he woke up, and there he…

The other day, I was basking in the glory of the sun. Thank God for spring is here. Just chilling on the corner, catching the sunset, what a beautiful scene.…

If a vehicle is something that carries or conveys, then the human body can be understood as the vehicle of the self. Your body is the vehicle through which your being moves through reality.…

Barefoot shoes are the biggest game changer in terms of walking all day and overall joy and experience of being able to move with agility on the streets while maximizing…

An asymptote is a line that a curve gets closer and closer to but never actually touches. In mathematics (especially graphs and calculus), it describes the behavior of a function as it approaches infinity…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today I want to talk about light in photography, and look at some photographs recently made with the Ricoh GR IV monochrome. Later down in…