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What a Telephoto Lens Taught Me About Slowing Down (And Slowing the Water)
I’ve been shooting landscapes for twenty years and I still hit the same wall every winter: the wide compositions dry up. The big vistas I know by heart around central Oregon look flat in low light, the foreground interest disappears under snow or mud, and I find myself standing at a trailhead wondering why I drove out here before sunrise. Again. What pulls me through that rut, reliably, is compression. Picking up the long glass and looking for the quiet scene inside the obvious one.