Reflections have a way of challenging certainty. In this architectural composition, suspended mirrored spheres transform the familiar into something quietly mysterious. The surfaces faithfully record their surroundings, yet the reflections refuse to align with what the eye expects. Perspective bends, space compresses, and reality appears to fold in on itself.…
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Night has a way of revealing a world that remains hidden in daylight. In the beam of their flashlights, two men search the branches overhead, scanning for the telltale glint of tree frog eyes. Whether driven by tradition, curiosity, or the thrill of the hunt, they move quietly through the…
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I’m genuinely excited about this project. In many ways, I’ve chosen one of the most demanding combinations available today: a fully mechanical Leica M6 paired with an ultra-fine-grain, ISO 50 black-and-white film. It’s about as far from the “spray and pray” digital workflow as photography can get. What strikes me…
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A few months with a manual rangefinder camera has made the differences between “taking a photograph” and “making a photograph” quite clear. The thought process is more involved, pre-visualization is required, knowledge of photography comes into play and modern DSLR habits come to the front. I have identified something that…
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There’s an interesting idea at the heart of this observation, but it should probably be framed a little differently. To be clear, I don’t think autofocus, autoexposure, subject recognition, and the presence of computational photography have made people less capable of being good photographers. What the modern camera has done…
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One of the reasons the Leica M6 has become almost mythical is that people often describe it as if it has a personality. That may sound strange for a purely mechanical camera, but personality in a camera doesn’t come from electronics—it comes from how it influences your behavior. The M6…
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He meets the camera like a man meets weather—steady, worn, still standing. They sing about It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,where the day lets go easy.But not here. It’s Not Five O’Clock Here ©2026 Eric Wells Hatheway Leica M11-P & Leica Summilux M 50mm f/1.4 Here, the hours stack.His hands carry the…
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It’s almost a symbol in its own right–that black bar over the eyes on photographs used to obscure identity. It’s a little artifact of visual culture that has been fascinating to me since I was a youngster. I once sneaked a look at a “spicy” detective magazine in the back…
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The phrase “the art life” feels older than it sounds, but its current popularity owes a lot to David Lynch and his documentary David Lynch: The Art Life. What’s interesting is that the phrase didn’t arrive as a formal movement or theory—it emerged more like studio slang that finally found…
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The Artist 
Dirque du Soleil 
Eric Hatheway