The joy of discussing photographs

Show, Talk and Learn. Also one of the first times I show my own work here.

Just before the summer break we went to a beautiful location with a bunch of photo friends. It was an old industrial area in Den Bosch that has been turned into a cultural hotspot.

And this weekend, after the summer break, we met again to discuss the photos we'd taken that day.

We were supposed to bring three printed photos and discuss them.

As I'm a firm believer in showing my work to as many people as possible, as I wrote about last year, I love these meetings where we show and comment on each other's photos.

I always like to get together with like-minded photographers to show our work and have it criticised. I never take any criticism personally, I just suck it up and try to learn from it.

For the shoot we did in Den Bosch before the summer, I tried to focus on street photography with a single person in the frame. The three pictures I printed and showed had one person in each, and as we concluded after the discussion, they were all about the right moment, the decisive moment, as one …