A Studio With A View is the photoblog of Washington, DC photographer Jason Novak, who promises to try not talking about himself in the third person. Much.

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  • Reality, simplified

    March 14, 2012

    Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? While we’re working, we must be conscious of what we’re doing. Sometimes we have the feeling that we’ve taken a great photo, and yet we continue to [...]

  • Intellectual Joy

    August 14, 2010

    To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. — Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers