Pushing the Wide
There was a time in my photographic life when wide-angle lenses had very little use. I suspect this was because it took a little more work for me to get my head around them and find a way to incorporate them into my vision-making process. For me, photography is the organization of chaos into order through the austere discipline of the frame, and while telephotos can have a tidying effect on the world visible within the frame, a wide-angle lens used indiscriminately can throw the whole world into greater chaos. It’s taken a long time for me to learn to capture my vision with wide and ultra-wide lenses. Apparently, I have control issues. Telephotos are tidy, and wide-angles messy.
But the more I work with wide-angle lenses, the ...
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