new blog up: photography & writing--simplify, simplify, simplify

"Reality offers us such a wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ... We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole." Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Same with writing. If you don't make the cuts, if you don't revise, the whole suffers. If you keep everything, you end up with...