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One Lens, All Day: What Shooting with a Prime Taught Me About Seeing Again
There’s a particular kind of laziness that creeps in after years of shooting with a zoom. You plant your feet, you twist the barrel, and you convince yourself you’ve explored a composition. I’ve done it in the Cascades, I’ve done it along the Oregon coast, and if I’m being honest, I’ve done it enough times that I started coming home with technically fine images that felt somehow hollow. The zoom lets you solve compositional problems from where you’re standing, and that’s exactly the trouble.