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I own several camera bags, and I’m increasingly convinced they gossip when I’m not looking.
The sling bag thinks it’s adventurous because it once visited Iceland. The roller case won’t stop mentioning airports. The backpack believes it’s carrying the entire weight of modern photography despite containing three lenses, two muesli bars from 2023, and approximately seventeen lens caps that fit nothing.
If camera bags could talk, mine would probably stage an intervention. “Simon,” they’d say, “you’re taking six lenses to photograph your 12yo son’s football game. Perhaps… maybe… calm down.”
I’m pretty fortunate when it comes to camera bags, I’ve worked with/for a camera bag company now for about 16 years and I have many! Gotta love options, but because I have those options, the one thing I do consistently is overpack! “Just take a bigger bag!”
There are scenarios when you have NO clue what you’re going to need, so you tend to pack in everything you own, but then, as per my example above, I’ve photographed my kid’s football for many years now and I know what I’ll use, but still pack more than I need.
What is it about photographers that makes them overpack?
Q. Do you tend to over pack your camera bag when it comes to photography gear, or are you in the “only what I need” camp? Let me know in the comments!
NOW, speaking of over-packing, let’s touch on the “look after your body!” side of shooting, because that certainly relates to having too much weight on the one shoulder (pack evenly, if it’s too heavy, use a backpack) This post from Suzi is still very relevant.
If you have self-care tips as a photographer, leave ’em in the comments!
Hope you had a fun 4th of July.
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SILVERSTONE (ANP/DPA) - De Formule 1 heeft het circuit van Portimão achter de hand als vervanger van de laatste grand prix van het seizoen in Abu Dhabi. Volgens de website the-race.com is het Portugese circuit kandidaat voor het geval de races in Qatar of Abu Dhabi op respectievelijk 29 november en 6 december niet door kunnen gaan in verband met de geopolitieke situatie in het Midden-Oosten.
Portimão stond voor het laatst in 2021 op de F1-kalender. Voor 2027 en 2028 keert de Grote Prijs van Portugal terug op de kalender.
De Formule 1 moest eerder dit jaar de races in Bahrein en Saudi-Arabië uitstellen door de oorlog in Iran. De races kunnen nog later in het seizoen worden ingehaald, meldde F1-baas Stefano Domenicali. Volgens de Britse tv-zender Sky Sports maakt de race in Bahrein daar de grootste kans op. Voor de zomerbreak eind juli moet dat bekend zijn.
TARRAGONA (ANP) - Mathieu van der Poel denkt dat wereldkampioen Tadej Pogačar zondag de grootste kans heeft om de tweede etappe van de Tour de France te winnen. Voor zichzelf ziet de tweevoudig etappewinnaar in de heuvelachtige finale in Barcelona slechts een kleine kans weggelegd. "Maar als er een kansje is, probeer ik dat wel te pakken", zei de 31-jarige wielrenner van Alpecin-Premier Tech tegen aanwezige verslaggevers in de Catalaanse vertrekplaats Tarragona.
"Voor mij moet het een beetje een gesloten wedstrijd zijn, maar dat gebeurt niet meer zo vaak. Het is lastiger dan iedereen denkt, zeker met het weer en de stress die erbij komen kijken", aldus de nummer 11 van het klassement na de ploegentijdrit van zaterdag. Van der Poel denkt dat de top 10 van die eerste etappe zondag weer de gevaarlijkste mannen zijn. De finish ligt opnieuw op de Montjuïc.
Van der Poel droeg vorig jaar aan het begin van de Tour vier dagen de gele trui en hoopte dat deze editie te herhalen. Zijn achterstand op leider Jonas Vingegaard is 39 seconden.
TILBURG (ANP) - Netbeheerder Enexis heeft zondag tegen het einde van de ochtend de stroom voor zo'n 18.000 klanten in en rond Tilburg kort afgeschakeld om te voorkomen dat het elektriciteitsnet daar overbelast zou raken. Dat bevestigt een woordvoerster van Enexis na berichtgeving door onder meer Omroep Brabant. Door de noodmaatregel zaten mensen zonder stroom.
Het is volgens de woordvoerster nog nooit eerder gebeurd dat Enexis huishoudens om deze reden zonder stroom liet zitten. "Overbelasting kan zorgen voor grotere en langdurige stroomuitval, dus je doet dan liever een deel uit om te voorkomen dat die overbelasting ervoor zorgt dat dingen kapotgaan", legt ze uit. Ze zegt dat de laatste klanten ruim een half uur na de ingreep weer elektriciteit hadden.
De zegsvrouw laat weten dat in de regio Tilburg zondag opeens heel veel elektriciteit werd verbruikt. De netbeheerder onderzoekt nog waarom. Er is volgens haar geen reden om te verwachten dat Enexis binnenkort nog een keer moet ingrijpen.
TRÉVILLACH (ANP) - Door de zaterdag uitgebroken natuurbrand in het zuiden van Frankrijk is inmiddels circa 1500 hectare afgebrand. Dat meldt BFMTV op gezag van het departement Pyrénées-Orientales. Eerder op zaterdag werd nog gemeld dat het ging om circa 930 hectare.
Het vuur zwol zondag aan en heeft nu een brandlijn van zeker 18 kilometer, aldus het departement. Circa tweehonderd voertuigen van hulpdiensten en negen vliegtuigen zijn ingezet. Zo'n zevenhonderd brandweerlieden zijn bezig het vuur te bestrijden. Volgens de autoriteiten kan dat nog lang duren.
In meerdere Franse departementen zijn hittewaarschuwingen afgegeven, waaronder Pyrénées-Orientales. Deze week wordt verwacht dat de hitte terugkeert naar Frankrijk. Ook in Spanje en Portugal is men voorzichtig met het oog op de naderende hittegolf.
Jesús Piñero grew up with the sound of gunfire, but thought he would be safe on the bus taking him to his home in Caracas. Then a mugger came for his phone …
As he rushed up the stairs from the Palo Verde metro station and jumped into the camioneta (small bus) for the five-minute ride to his home in Caracas, Jesús Piñero’s head buzzed with projects and ideas. It was 25 March 2016, and Venezuela was in meltdown, but the 22-year-old was upbeat. Exam results, parties and family awaited after a day with friends shaking a tin on the street for money to buy lightbulbs for the university history department where – in a first for his working-class family – he was a promising student.
His white Blu phone – only $80 (£60) but his most expensive and valued possession – did not stop pinging. His mother, Elisa, was worried. “When are you getting home?” She had been messaging all afternoon. A cake was ready for his brother and sister, who had birthdays that week. The family was gathering. It was getting dark. Street crime was horrendous.
Continue reading...The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions takes a deep dive into the unknown and untrodden …
This week’s new question: Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks?
Are there places on Earth where humans haven’t been? And if so, why? Aaron Jones, New York
Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.
Continue reading...The more I learn about celebrities and their odd passions, the more encouraged I am. So much for AI drowning us in a flood of bland ‘tasteslop’
The internet, as we know, is now a depressing hellhole where everything is a terrifying shot of cortisol straight into the eyeballs or AI slop, interspersed with adverts for protein. So may I offer a recommendation for a modest corrective? It’s called Perfectly Imperfect.
It is a daily newsletter about stuff people like. That’s it; that’s the whole concept. The people in question are public figures, but only up to a point – the mostly US artists and musicians featured aren’t household names for a 51-year-old British woman (though there is the occasional megastar: Francis Ford Coppola likes Hawaiian shirts and halva; Kylie likes washi masking tape and fresh wasabi). Whoever is featured, their likes are deeply idiosyncratic and often unappealing: cracking your knuckles against your jaw; an unhinged cocktail comprising Aperol, milk, creamer and olives; a sporting self-help book or cold-calling people.
Continue reading...Karlovy Vary film festival
The film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The Wombles
The unmistakable film-making voice of documentary-maker and critic Mark Cousins is raised again, to educate, to intrigue, to challenge. His histories of the movies are invitations to a seance, a chance to participate in the kind of ecstatic trance or dream-state that Cousins himself goes into, almost free-associating from film to film but with an overarching but discreetly emphasised theme – or maybe motif – and always with something shrewd, pertinent and humane to say. I have never watched a Cousins film without feeling that I have learned something new, and so it has proved again.
At Karlovy Vary, he is presenting part of his monumental new The Story of Documentary Film, which comprises 16 hour-long chapters, and of these he is here giving us numbers Eight and Nine, about the 1980s. The first of these begins and ends at the site of Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall which came down at the end of the decade; Cousins subtitles this episode with a line from Robert Frost: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” His theme here is empathy, surmounting the obstacle (or wall) of indifference or ignorance; and he talks about the films that questioned the existing order and which pulled away the bricks that caused the Soviet wall to collapse. The second part (chapter nine) is subtitled “detectives”, about the investigative documentaries that demanded answers, particularly to questions about the wartime past, by people like Marcel Ophuls, Claude Lanzmann and Michael Moore.
Continue reading...Civilian resilience initiatives and young military conscripts are being readied should Putin hope to test Nato’s resolve
Only four months ago, Ella Adman had just finished school and had never before held a gun. Now, standing in the shade in between drills at a military base on Gotland, the strategically important Swedish Baltic island where she grew up, the 19-year-old conscript is carrying a powerful assault rifle. In a matter of days, she is due to carry out her first official mission in Stockholm, guarding the royal family.
At first, Adman was taken aback by the length of her 15-month compulsory military service and the gruelling 16-hour days in which she trains and lives alongside her male peers. Now she is getting used to it. “You find out what you are capable of and how strong you become as a group,” she said.
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Regionale en etnische accenten blijken altijd vooroordelen te triggeren. Geen Nederlander die daar immuun voor is.
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‘Captain America’ Christian Pulisic is de grootste speler van het Amerikaanse team. Bij zijn oude voetbalclub zien ze hoe het succes van de VS politieke tegenstellingen overstijgt.
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Anvers / Antwerpen
Linocut print in two colours on a postcard.
Last day of my exhibition here. For those in Strasbourg: you are welcome until 19:00 in Atelier du bain aux plantes! 8 rue du bain aux plantes, 67000 Strasbourg.
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