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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

by Brooks Jensen

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HT2781 - YouTube Shortcuts

October 21, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2781 with Brooks Jensen YouTube Shortcuts Whatever happened to learning by doing, learning by trial and error, learning by falling flat on our face? Photographers no longer need to experiment. Whatever you might want to…
HT2780 - Go Ahead, Be Insecure

October 20, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2780 with Brooks Jensen Go Ahead, Be Insecure If you are fully confident and unquestionably sure of your work, you are probable not taking enough chances. Staying inside your comfort zone does not mean the work is…
HT2779 - Looking for Solutions, Not Gear

October 19, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2779 with Brooks Jensen Looking for Solutions, Not Gear The other day I was talking about the use of Polaroids in the field and more recently LCD screens to overcome my limitations in seeing two-dimensionally. A podcast…
LW1527 - My Philosophy of Art in a Nutshell

October 19, 2026

Episode #1527 from our long-running, weekly podcast On Photography and the Creative Process My Philosophy of Art in a Nutshell Each of us (both as art-maker and as art-lover) makes decisions about our relationship with art -- ours and…
HT2778 - Photographs Themselves Are Symbols

October 18, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2778 with Brooks Jensen Photographs Themselves Are Symbols Yesterday I was talking about how we think and feel in symbols. Of course the important topic I left out was the fact that photographs themselves are symbols…

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HT2777 - Everything Is Symbolic

October 17, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2777 with Brooks Jensen Everything Is Symbolic One of the things that separates humans from animals is that we think in terms of symbols, culturally defined associations, and abstracts. There is a school of thought from…
HT2776 - Cluster Mode Photography

October 16, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2776 with Brooks Jensen Cluster Mode Photography I interviewed David Hurn (MAGNUM) when we published him in LensWork and was fascinated by his description of Magnum photography. I'll abbreviate his technique: 95% of…
HT2775 - A Timed Event

October 15, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2775 with Brooks Jensen A Timed Event At the suggestion of a friend years ago, I experimented with photography as a timed event. I was driving through Eastern Oregon and the challenge was to stop every hour on the hour…
HT2774 - Plein-air Photoshop

October 14, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2774 with Brooks Jensen Plein-air Photoshop You're familiar with plein air painting, that open air approach to painting at the scene, in the environment, outside the four walls of the painters studio. Why can't we do…
HT2773 - Twelve For Six

October 13, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2773 with Brooks Jensen Twelve For Six I continue to have all kinds of fun doing Seeing In SIXES projects. I've been doing them long enough now that I'm starting to see certain patterns emerge that help the process. For…
HT2772 - That Special Travel Feeling

October 12, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2772 with Brooks Jensen That Special Travel Feeling Why is it that travel seems to precipitate a heighten sense of excitement to photograph that is missing from our home or daily routines? Is it simply that we are…
HT2771 - Your Work and Ansel Adams

October 11, 2026 · 3 min

Here's a Thought… #2771 with Brooks Jensen Your Work and Ansel Adams I've said for a long time now that the most influential attribute of a work of art is the signature of the artist. That is, a very bad Ansel Adams print will be more…

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About the show

Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork Podcasts — posted weekly, typically 10-20 minutes exploring a topic a bit more deeply — and our almost daily Here's a thought… audios (extracted from the videos.) Here's a thought… are snippets, fragments, morsels, and tidbits from Brooks' fertile (and sometimes swiss-cheesy) brain. Usually just a minute or two. Always about photography and the art life. Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork has subscribers in over 73 countries. He is the author of 13 books on photography and the creative life -- the latest books are The Best of the LensWork Interviews (2016), Photography, Art, and Media (2016), and the four annual volumes of Seeing in SIXES (2016-2019).