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It’s Not About the F-Stop
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It’s Not About the F-Stop

by Jay Maisel
March 2015
Beginner
216 pages
3h 1m
English
New Riders
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What’s In Front of You

My daughter, Amanda, has had to deal with my constantly taking pictures of her. She has tried to dissuade me, to no avail. At rare moments I even felt a tiny bit of guilt about it.

When I asked her what she wanted for her 12th birthday, she said, “Dad, could you put together a DVD with all the pictures you’ve ever taken of me?”

I’m vindicated!

I pointed out the physical limitations of the DVD and we finally settled at a little over 2,100 images. And that doesn’t even cover almost anything that was shot on film before she was six.

The only way she managed to escape my invasive study of her life was to go to college. Her entire education had been at Friends Seminary on 16th St. When she started looking at colleges, I meekly ...

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