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lush colors through long exposure

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Tokyo, 2024.12.07

The Girl and I went out to take some experimental photos. Here the experiment was to put a dark filter on the lens and let the exposure go quite long. The objectives here were two: to obtain deeper colors and to eliminate passers-by from the image. And there were quite a few of these.

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In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009