"Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and Fortunes, do err in my Altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders."

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I do not think photography is important, though it can occasionally be good fun. Probably it is more often than not a waste of time.

"We are far too easily pleased."

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Now, switch off your computer and go encourage someone you know.

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If you nevertheless want to see some of my trivial pictures, begin with the album "decent recent street" and try watching them in fullscreen mode. There are rarely extra details to be found, but they benefit from the size and they are sharp.

I know, Cartier-Bresson once famously stated that sharpness is a bourgoise concept - which is a good reason to embrace it. Like most French intellectuals of his time he was a communist (more or less) and thereby supported the world's worst dictators. In some way his dictum about sharpness ties in with that. People on the far left are idealists and zealots who often hate the real world, whatever they profess. And even if some of them actually have compassion with unfortunate people, they despise just helping a couple of individuals around them, but in their pride will want to impose their crude fantasies on the world and try to force others to accept their infantile visions of equality by some kind of violence.

We cannot see the world clearly if our subjectivity swallows it, like the wolf of the Norse myth swallowing the sun at the end of times.

A longing for truth rather than justice will yield a clearer vision of the world and a keener sense of grace. This gift of discernment will help us enjoy the world as it is, as long as we cultivate gratitude and humbly ponder the wisdom of our forefathers. Then we will also know that things which grow slowly and organically will be the healthiest and the most beautiful, and we will know it is better to let the tares grow together with the wheat rather than uprooting everything by excessive weeding.